Players v tennis tours: What is the PTPA lawsuit, what does it want and what happens next?
Nassar of PTPA said the sport was unintentionally tear apart in the way the LIV Tour split the golf course. He even said that settling in court is one of the association’s goals.
“The goal is not to litigate until the end,” Nassar said.
“We are absolutely ready to do that. We have built a real organization and we have built a war box to be able to pass.
“But what we want is to get everyone to reform the movement in the way many have already talked about.”
These conversations are not easy to organize. There is a lot of bad blood between PTPA and the tour. On Tuesday, ATP accused PTPA of always choosing to “split and distract from progressive misinformation.”
Nassar’s response on social media was: “I’m glad to add defamation to our lawsuit.”
ATP will have confidence in its legal position after winning the antitrust case Bringed by the German Tennis Federation in 2008 Therefore, the court may need to resolve some of the requirements of the PTPA.
Although Margaret Garnett has been appointed to judge, it may take years for the U.S. legal process to reach the required jury trial.
The UK complaint has filed the Competition and Market Authority with the country’s main competition regulator. There are six different plaintiffs in the case, including Corentin Moutet in France and Jay Clarke in Britain.
The EU Challenge also lists different plaintiffs, and the European Commission has made a proposal from the European Commission, hoping that the EU’s main executive bodies can find “serious violations of its competition rules.”
To be sure, this will be a very expensive exercise for all parties, which will financially affect the duration of travel and players.
