{"id":164229,"date":"2025-09-23T16:46:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T16:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/164229\/"},"modified":"2025-09-23T16:46:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-23T16:46:13","slug":"ptpa-adds-tennis-four-grand-slams-to-antitrust-suit-against-atp-wta-tours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/164229\/","title":{"rendered":"PTPA adds tennis’ four Grand Slams to antitrust suit against ATP, WTA Tours"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Professional Tennis Players Association has requested leave to add the governing bodies of tennis\u2019 four Grand Slams — Tennis Australia, the All England Lawn Tennis Club, French Tennis Federation and USTA — as defendants in its antitrust suit against the ATP and WTA tours<\/a> in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of N.Y.<\/p>\n

In March the PTPA and player plaintiffs first filed suits in N.Y., London and Brussels, which allege the disparate bodies that run professional tennis had conspired to eliminate competition and form a monopoly. At the time, the Grand Slam governing bodies were listed only as co-conspirators with the defendants the ATP Tour, WTA Tour, International Tennis Federation and International Tennis Integrity Agency. In the months since, the PTPA has dropped the ITF and ITIA from the suit in N.Y., and in June notified the court<\/a> that it would abstain from adding the Grand Slams for 90 days as they engaged in settlement discussions that would address issues raised in the suit without court intervention. The PTPA\u2019s self-imposed deadline to consummate or cease those discussions was Monday. The association submitted an amended complaint to the court that would add the Grand Slams as defendants Monday evening.<\/p>\n

The PTPA stressed in filings that the addition of the Grand Slams as defendants does not modify the substance of its claims against the ATP and WTA tours, which have each filed motions to dismiss or transfer the case (that are pending). The PTPA\u2019s latest amended complaint — its second since the initial complaint in March — is also pending the court granting leave to be filed.<\/p>\n

The PTPA is being represented by Weil, Gotshal & Manges and former Weil partner Jim Quinn. The ATP Tour is being represented by Proskauer and the WTA Tour by Latham & Watkins. <\/p>\n

In a statement to SBJ, the USTA said it was \u201cdisappointed\u201d with the PTPA\u2019s decision:<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are aware that the PTPA has sought to add the USTA as a co-defendant in their existing lawsuit against the ATP and WTA. We are disappointed in the PTPA\u2019s decision to take this action given our ongoing efforts as we have worked throughout this process to find a viable solution in the best interest of the sport, while continuing our longstanding leadership on player compensation \u2014 most recently evidenced by the 2025 U.S. Open offering the largest purse in tennis history,\u201c the statement reads. \u201cWe remain committed to working productively to solve the issues facing tennis today, with the long-term goal of strengthening the sport to enhance the experience for players, tournaments, fans, and other stakeholders.\u201d<\/p>\n

Spokespeople for the AELTC, FFT and Tennis Australia did not immediately respond to requests for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Professional Tennis Players Association has requested leave to add the governing bodies of tennis\u2019 four Grand Slams…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":164230,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[6733,49,48,5525,84991,82,593,35298,614,4306],"class_list":["post-164229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-atp","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-french-open","tag-itf","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-usta","tag-wimbledon","tag-wta"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164229\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/164230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}