Djokovic: Men deserve higher pay than women

World Number one Novak Djokovic has said he believes men tennis should get higher prize money than women because they pull more spectators. 

This has added to the controversy over equality in the sport after Indian Wells tournament director Raymond Moore said women's tennis was riding on the coat-tails of the men's game. 

However, Djokovic, who won the Indian Wells title for the fifth time, said Moore was wrong in his remark. 

The Serbian said women “fought for what they deserve and they got it”. But he added that the men’s Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) “should fight for more.” 

“I think that our men’s tennis world, ATP world, should fight for more, because the stats are showing that we have much more spectators on the men’s tennis matches," Djokovic said. 

Djokovic offered $200,000 to fix tennis match

Novak Djokovic has claimed he was offered roughly $200,000 to lose a first-round match at a tournament in St. Petersburg, Russia in 2007.

Djokovic, who disclosed this at a press conference at the Australian Open, said he wasn't approached directly. 

"I was approached through people that were working with me at that time," he said, and made it clear that the offer was rejected. He added that he didn't even attend the tournament.

Djokovic went on to voice his displeasure at the offer saying, "It made me feel terrible because I don't want to be anyhow linked to this kind of -- you know, somebody may call it an opportunity."

 "For me, that's an act of unsportsmanship, a crime in sport honestly. I don't support it. I think there is no room for it in any sport, especially in tennis," he added.

A report by BuzzFeed/BBC said there has been widespread match-fixing in men's tennis and that authorities in the sport have ignored it. The report, however, refused to name the players involved because it could not prove a direct connection to betting. But, it stated  there is a group of 16 suspected men who have been ranked in the top 50 involved and the group involved a US Open champion.