The Skilled Tennis Gamers’ Affiliation (PTPA) is looking for a court docket order to forestall the ATP Tour partaking in “improper, coercive or threatening communications” with gamers.
The affiliation alleges the ATP has tried to stress gamers into signing pre-prepared statements saying they’d no prior information of the legal action launched this week by the PTPA.
The union, which was co-founded by 24-time main winner Novak Djokovic, cited “anti-competitive practices and a blatant disregard for participant welfare” in lawsuits filed on Tuesday.
Djokovic just isn’t one of many gamers listed as a plaintiff within the official court docket paperwork, however said publicly on the Miami Open on Thursday that there are parts of the lawsuit with which he agrees, and a few with which he doesn’t.
The Serb went on to say: “I’ve seen some adjustments, however there are some elementary adjustments which might be nonetheless but to be made and I actually hope that each one the governing our bodies, together with PTPA, will come collectively and resolve these points.”
The PTPA, “on behalf of all the participant inhabitants”, is taking motion in opposition to the lads’s ATP Tour, the ladies’s WTA Tour, the Worldwide Tennis Federation and the Worldwide Tennis Integrity Company within the US, the UK and the European Union.
Australia’s Nick Kyrgios is probably the most high-profile participant to be named as a plaintiff alongside the PTPA.
In papers filed late on Friday to america District Courtroom in New York, legal professionals for the PTPA requested Choose Margaret Garnett to subject an order which prevents all 4 defendants from speaking with gamers about their involvement within the course of.
The movement accuses the ATP of threatening to cut back prize cash and pension contributions to offset authorized charges which it’s going to accrue from preventing the case. It argues this constitutes “flagrant interference” with the jurisdiction of the court docket.
