The players' association co-founded by 24-time Grand Slam champion Novak Djokovic filed an antitrust lawsuit against the women's and men's professional tours, the International Tennis Federation and the sport's integrity agency on Tuesday in U.S. District Court in New York, calling the groups in charge of tennis “a cartel.”
The filing on behalf of the Professional Tennis Players' Association says the organizations that run the sport hold “complete control over the players’ pay and working conditions” and their setup constitutes “textbook violations of state and federal law” that “immunize professional tennis from ordinary market forces and deny professional tennis players and other industry participants their right to fair competition.”
