Tennis stars accuse the management bodies of "Cartel" to refuse more awarded money

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A group of top tennis players accused the games of the game of caught them in an unfair system, suppressing their income and putting their health in danger, in a legal action trying to shake sports.

The professional association of tennis players, co-founded by the Serbian star Novak Djokovic, said in a complaint filed on Tuesday that the organizations behind men and women’s tournaments drove a “cartel” with the international gaming body.

As part of the statement, PTPA and 12 players, including Nick Kyrgios and Zheng Saisai, accused the Association for Men of Tennis Professionals and the Association of Tennis of Players and Fans and Fans through anti-competitive practices, such as the ceiling of awarded money and collaboration to reduce competition between tournaments.

The claim, deposited in the southern district of New York, is the latest climbing of players for a greater billion dollars in professional tennis revenues, including tournaments. The PTPA has said that they intend to take similar measures in the UK and Europe.

There are challenges for devoted power brokers of other sports by a number of groups from private investors to football clubs and comes while external investors are trying to cope with the industry.

Golf It was shaken By creating the Liv series supported by Saudi, while the top European football clubs have tried, without success, to create a separated super-lig that will allow them to capture more revenues.

The request for trial on Tuesday also named the International Tennis Federation-Global Management Organic-and the International Tennis Integrity Agency in a responsible body for anti-draft controls and fixing matches-a defendants.

Non-profit PTPA is affiliated with Winners Alliance, a lucrative purpose company, presided over by Magnat Hedge Fund Bill Ackman, who aims to create new business models in sports.

The winners’ alliance has already invested in a The new athletics competition In front of the former Olympic champion of Sprint Michael Johnson, who aims to review the sport, raise the profile of top athletes and offer them higher salaries.

The process follows the PTPA efforts, founded by Djokovic and the Canadian player Vasek Pospisil in 2019, to plead for improved conditions for players.

It is looking for several remedies, including damages due to the governing bodies and the dedication of the profits obtained from their alleged crime.

It also criticizes the system by which players collect global ranking points. The points dictate in which tournament players can compete and affect their sponsorship opportunities, but are only granted for competitions that are part of the defendants’ tours, putting alternative disadvantages, says the process.

The submission accused the IT of combating doping and fixing matches with measures that were “much more draconian and invasive than necessary to achieve these goals, because players do not have a tour or tour to come.”