The outdoor courts at Wimbledon are packed with doubles matches in the middle of the opening weekend. Spectators with ground tickets, which at SW19 cost from £30, flock to the exciting races, drinking Pimms and watching the tennis.If the leadership of the ATP has its way, doubles at Tour-level events will begin to decrease in 2028, as will the prize for doubles events, which has already dropped to an 80-20 split with singles. The noise within the group of players, who are counted as single players, grew even more when some of them, although they were placed in the 40 group, took less money than the players who were selected the best at the end of the season.One of the biggest challenges that the male gamer faces is his growing disparity from the singles game. The WTA Tour, which does not consider a similar transition, has more crossover between the singles and doubles divisions. Five of the top ten women in the doubles – Taylor Townsend, Katerina Siniakova, Elise Mertens, Zhang Shuai and Jeļena Ostapenko – were also ranked highly in singles. Among men, in contrast, only four players from the ATP singles top-100 are also present in the doubles top-100, with Ben Shelton, Lorenzo Musetti, Lorenzo Sonego and Rinky Hijikata.It is a very different group of players in two teams that were not seen before the Bryan Brothers, twins Mike and Bob Bryan, who started as a professional duo. This is what the ATP seems to be trying to prevent, players who become doubles champions from the start.The plan is to reduce its size, which stands at 16 in doubles and 28 in singles for ATP 250 events. At the level of 500, it is 16 in doubles and 32 in singles, while the Masters 1000 game has 16 in doubles and 32 in singles. This can be reduced to eight teams at the ATP 250 and 500 events, and 16 teams at the Masters 1000 level.In addition to this, the distribution of prize money could move forward to singles, which could move to a 90-10 split, only a slight change from what the Grand Slam tournaments used to do.By 2028, revenue is expected to double to nearly $60 million. The tour doesn’t want to cut the total amount, but instead redistribute the money, $20 million of which could be sent to the original single payments by 2028.This could also affect the Indians, who have nine of the top 200 players with only three in the top 100 and one, Yuki Bhambri, in the top 50.Earlier this week, two players met with their representatives at the players’ council, Marcelo Arevalo and Andrea Vavassori, to discuss their situation. Balaji, who was ranked 59th in the doubles, told TOI, “If they make this change, half of us will not play tennis anymore. I have to find another job. If they reduce the draw to eight, where there will be two wildcards, what is left?”Indians had little luck in the men’s doubles action at Wimbledon on Thursday, with US Open finalists Yuki Bhambri and Michael Venus going down to exchanges with Jean-Julien Rojer and Theodore Winegar 3-6, 4-6. Earlier, Sriram Balaji and fellow Brazilian Marcelo Demoliner failed to capitalize on the opening set to go down 6-3, 6-7 (2), 4-6 to Sander Gille and Sam Verbeek.Anirudh Chandrasekar and Takeru Yuzuki of Japan went down to Ignacio Buse and Marco Trungelliti 4-6, 7-6 (3), 6-7 (7).