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Players and PTPA oppose ATP/WTA bids to dismiss and compel arbitration in US antitrust class action alleging cartel behaviour

Published on: 04 September 2025

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International tennis authorities are, say the PTPA and the players, improperly seeking to scuttle the proposed antitrust class action by moving to drop the players’ co-plaintiff, the Professional Tennis Players Association (PTPA), and by pressing the court to consign the matter to arbitration. Those arguments appear in two briefs filed on 28 August 2025 by the PTPA and the players. The case was initially brought on 18 March by six men and six women players, with the PTPA later joining; the union, established in 2019, counts as co-founder and lead plaintiff the Canadian tennis veteran Vasek Pospisil. An amended complaint dated 24 June lists as co-defendants the Association of Tennis Professionals’ ATP Tour Inc and the Women’s Tennis Association’s WTA Tour Inc. On 31 July, the ATP and WTA tours asked the court to dismiss the union from the claim, asserting that the PTPA has no valid legal stake and characterising the union as 'a self-proclaimed advocacy group that competes neither on the tennis court nor in the alleged relevant markets'...

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