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 and match schedules that often keep players on court well past midnight
- alleges a “heavy-handed approach” by the ITIA
- criticises the sport’s rankings system
- wants to boost the number of combined men’s-women’s events.
