{"id":417971,"date":"2026-01-18T20:12:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T20:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/417971\/"},"modified":"2026-01-18T20:12:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T20:12:12","slug":"tennis-australia-to-cooperate-with-ptpa-against-other-slams-in-settlement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/417971\/","title":{"rendered":"Tennis Australia to cooperate with PTPA against other slams in settlement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-leagues-and-governing-bodies \">Details of Tennis Australia\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2025\/12\/23\/ptpa-tennis-australia-reach-settlement-in-antitrust-suit\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2025\/12\/23\/ptpa-tennis-australia-reach-settlement-in-antitrust-suit\/\">settlement with the Professional Tennis Players\u2019 Association<\/a> \u201cpublished for the first time,\u201d with Tennis Australia agreeing to \u201cco-operate with the PTPA against the other slams.\u201d That includes \u201cproviding confidential financial information, in return for being removed from the claim and avoiding liability for potential damages that could reach tens of millions of pounds.\u201d The PTPA launched an antitrust lawsuit against the four grand slams, the ATP Tour, WTA Tour and the International Tennis Federation last year, \u201caccusing them of collaborating to reduce prize money, impose a restrictive ranking system and repress player promotional opportunities.\u201d The PTPA\u2019s lawyers in a court filing wrote, \u201cIn exchange for a release of liability for monetary damages, Tennis Australia agrees to provide damages class plaintiffs with materials, facts, and other information known to Tennis Australia relevant to plaintiffs\u2019 claims against the Tour defendants and Grand Slam defendants.\u201d They claim the deal with Tennis Australia has been \u201cdesigned to put pressure on the other Slams to settle.\u201d The ATP and WTA have previously said the suit is \u201cbaseless and misguided\u201d and they are expected to continue their defense with the other slams. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/jan\/18\/tennis-civil-war-erupts-with-details-of-initial-peace-deal-revealed-for-first-time\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/jan\/18\/tennis-civil-war-erupts-with-details-of-initial-peace-deal-revealed-for-first-time\">THE GUARDIAN, 1\/18<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Details of Tennis Australia\u2019s settlement with the Professional Tennis Players\u2019 Association \u201cpublished for the first time,\u201d with Tennis&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":417972,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,14088,82,593],"class_list":["post-417971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-legal","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417971","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=417971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417971\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/417972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=417971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}