{"id":366834,"date":"2025-12-23T14:26:35","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T14:26:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/366834\/"},"modified":"2025-12-23T14:26:35","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T14:26:35","slug":"ptpa-tennis-australia-reach-settlement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/366834\/","title":{"rendered":"PTPA, Tennis Australia reach settlement"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Professional Tennis Players Association and group of pro tennis players suing the sport\u2019s governing bodies<\/a> over antitrust concerns has reached a settlement agreement with Tennis Australia that, upon approval by the court, would remove Tennis Australia from litigation. The plaintiffs\u2019 counsel, Andrew Tulumello of Weil, Gotshal & Manges, wrote in a letter to the judge overseeing the case in the Southern District of N.Y. on Monday that a settlement had been agreed to and that the plaintiffs and Tennis Australia \u201care working together to memorialize the terms and complete the long-form agreement early in the new year.\u201d Additional details were not divulged and a PTPA representative declined to comment. Tennis Australia did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The PTPA first revealed the settlement discussions in a letter to the court<\/a> on Nov. 19.<\/p>\n

At the outset of the case in March of this year, the PTPA and a dozen player plaintiffs filed suit against the ATP Tour, WTA Tour, International Tennis Federation and International Tennis Integrity Agency, alleging several anticompetitive practices; since then, the ITF and ITIA have been dropped from the suit, more player plaintiffs have been added (their number now totals 14), and the initial complaint was amended to name the organizers of tennis\u2019 four Grand Slams<\/a> — the USTA (U.S. Open), All England Lawn Tennis Club (Wimbledon), French Tennis Federation (French Open) and Tennis Australia (Australian Open) — as defendants instead of co-conspirators. <\/p>\n

The Grand Slam defendants were due to respond to the plaintiffs\u2019 amended complaint on Monday and did through a series of filings, including a joint motion to dismiss the complaint from all four organizations; a motion to compel arbitration of claims by plaintiffs that participated in the 2024 and\/or 2025 U.S. Open by the USTA (which was granted by the judge); and a joint motion to dismiss by the AELTC and FFT on the grounds of a failure to establish jurisdiction.<\/p>\n

The USTA is being represented by Covington & Burling, the AELTC by Axinn, Veltrop & Harkrider, and the FFT by Debevoise & Plimpton.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Professional Tennis Players Association and group of pro tennis players suing the sport\u2019s governing bodies over antitrust…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":366835,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[753,64,63,1805,85,747,32455,749,2637],"class_list":["post-366834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-atp","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-french-open","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-usta","tag-wimbledon","tag-wta"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=366834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366834\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/366835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=366834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=366834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=366834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}