There is now the genuine possibility of TA and the PTPA reaching a final agreement before the Australian Open gets under way in January.<\/p>\n
Whether TA will offer firm commitments around prize money or scheduling has not been divulged, but an agreement could strengthen the PTPA’s hand with the other Grand Slams.<\/p>\n
The New York case could ultimately result in a jury trial. Separate complaints have been lodged with the European Commission and the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority, but the PTPA has previously admitted an out-of-court settlement is a goal.<\/p>\n
“The goal is not to litigate this to the end,” the PTPA’s executive director Ahmad Nassar told BBC Sport in March.<\/p>\n
“We are absolutely prepared to do that, but that’s not what we actually need or want.<\/p>\n
“What we want is to get everybody to the table to reform the sport the way that many of them have already spoken about.”<\/p>\n
The New York judge is currently considering a motion filed by the ATP and WTA to dismiss the antitrust lawsuit.<\/p>\n
The ATP said in March it “strongly rejects the premise of the PTPA’s claims” and described the case as “entirely without merit”.<\/p>\n
The WTA referred to a “baseless legal case which will divert time, attention and resources from our core mission to the detriment of our players and the sport as a whole”.<\/p>\n
The International Tennis Federation and the International Tennis Integrity Agency were originally listed as defendants, but were removed from the lawsuit in September.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There is now the genuine possibility of TA and the PTPA reaching a final agreement before the Australian…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":294667,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":{"0":"post-294666","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294666","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=294666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294666\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/294667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}