{"id":4022,"date":"2025-05-21T16:05:28","date_gmt":"2025-05-21T16:05:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/05\/21\/motion-on-professional-tennis-tour-files-to-reject-the-ptpa-antitrust-law\/"},"modified":"2025-05-21T16:05:28","modified_gmt":"2025-05-21T16:05:28","slug":"motion-on-professional-tennis-tour-files-to-reject-the-ptpa-antitrust-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/05\/21\/motion-on-professional-tennis-tour-files-to-reject-the-ptpa-antitrust-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Motion on professional tennis tour files to reject the PTPA antitrust law"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The professional tennis tour and two other defendants jointly filed a motion in federal court in New York to dismiss the class action antitrust lawsuit filed by the Association of Professional Tennis Players, a group co-founded by Novak Djokovic.<\/p>\n<p>PTPA sued the WTA Women&#8217;s Tour, ATP Men&#8217;s Tour, International Tennis Federation (ITF), and International Tennis Integrity Agency (ITIA).<\/p>\n<p>Players are seeking a large portion of their revenue and have raised various other complaints about the tennis structure, including prize limits and lack of competition from rival tours and tournaments.<\/p>\n<p>PTPA was founded by 24-time Grand Slam champions Djokovic and Vasek Pospisil with the aim of representing players who are independent contractors, primarily in individual sports.<\/p>\n<p>Ahmadnassar, the group&#8217;s executive director, has repeatedly stated that it is not a full-fledged union, has no members and has not collected membership fees. All of this was pointed out in one of Tuesday&#8217;s moves as the reason why PTPA is not standing as plaintiffs in the case. The allegations came from all four defendants.<\/p>\n<p>Another move filed solely by the WTA, claims that male plaintiffs &#8212; 2022 Wimbledon runners-up Nick Kyrgios, Riley Opelka and Tenny Sandglen should not sue women&#8217;s tour &#8212; are alleging that female plaintiffs.<\/p>\n<p>A PTPA spokesman did not immediately respond to requests for comment.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The professional tennis tour and two other defendants jointly filed a motion in federal court in New York to dismiss the class action antitrust lawsuit filed by the Association of Professional Tennis Players, a group co-founded by Novak Djokovic. PTPA sued the WTA Women&#8217;s Tour, ATP Men&#8217;s Tour, International Tennis Federation (ITF), and International Tennis [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4023,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[311,308,312,306,307,310,309,24,123],"class_list":{"0":"post-4022","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-antitrust","9":"tag-files","10":"tag-law","11":"tag-motion","12":"tag-professional","13":"tag-ptpa","14":"tag-reject","15":"tag-tennis","16":"tag-tour"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4022\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}