By Chris Oddo | @TheFanChild | Monday April 14, 2025
Issues proceed to be tense between the ATP and the PTPA.
On Friday the dueling organizations had been in court docket in Manhattan, the place the PTPA was pursuing a gag order towards the ATP.
Reilly Opelka, one in all 12 ATP gamers which are named within the PTPA’s lawsuit towards the tour, which went public on March 18, known as in from Barcelona to testify, saying that he was approached by a member of the ATP’s Participant Council in Miami, with the participant warning him that he might lose his pension and be slowed down by authorized charges if he continued with the case.
Final month, a gaggle of tennis gamers sued the ATP and WTA, accusing them of a variety of antitrust violations.That group lately alleged that the ATP is coercing gamers to rebuke the lawsuit.
Reilly Opelka mentioned he was threatened by the ATP for supporting the lawsuit ⬇️
— Entrance Workplace Sports activities (@FOS) April 12, 2025
Opelka mentioned that the participant, whom he wouldn’t title on account of worry of retribution, was requested by ATP CEO Andrea Gaudenzi to ship the information. The ATP and its attorneys say that Opelka is mendacity, however they did admit to going out and in search of ATP gamers who had been keen to disavow the PTPA’s lawsuit on the day after it was began.
In response to Entrance Workplace Sports activities, ATP Board Member Luben Pampoulov testified he requested gamers on the Miami Open to signal a press release disavowing the lawsuit. They stopped circulating the petition when the PTPA’s gag movement was filed. Just one participant – American Ben Shelton – signed it.
Vasek Pospisil was within the courtroom and said that the gamers worry retribution from the ATP. In response to the experiences, the ATP is rumored to be keen to spend between $50 and $100 million on the case. Included in Tour bylaws is a word that claims that gamers are required to pay their very own authorized charges in the event that they sue the Tour and lose.
In response to Entrance Workplace Sports activities, the decide gave each side every week to file new briefs on the gag movement, and mentioned she would rule shortly after.
