Tennis pros rally for better pay and less punishing schedules, amid wider power struggles in world sport

By Eric Windholz, Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, Monash University

Last week, the Novak Djokovic-led Professional Tennis Players Association (PTPA) announced it was suing the sport’s governing bodies – the men’s (ATP) and women’s (WTA) tours, the International Tennis Federation (ITF) and the International Tennis Integrity Agency (ITIA).

The lawsuit:

seeks to change the prize money formula designed by the men’s and women’s tours (the PTPA says too little of the sport’s revenue goes to players)
aims to improve the “unsustainable” 11-month calendar…

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