Source Says Substantial Progress Made Towards Settling ATP Suit
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ATP And Hamburg Event Organizers
Making Progress In Settlement Talks |
Substantial progress was made at settling the ATP antitrust suit yesterday afternoon after the judge in the case, Gregory Sleet, urged the two sides to get together, a source close to the talks said. Sides representing the ATP and organizers of the Hamburg, Germany, event met for five hours yesterday and were planning to meet again this morning at the Hotel du Pont, where ATP officials are staying. The sides were due in court by 8:30am with the jury expected to arrive by 9:00am. The organizers of the Hamburg tour stop are suing the ATP in Delaware under U.S. antitrust law for planning to demote the sanction status of the event. The past three and a half days of court proceedings have featured sometimes heated testimony and revealing inside information into the workings of men's tennis, with yesterday including an appearance by Smith College sports economist Andrew Zimbalist that led the defense to call at one point for a mistrial and the judge to dismiss the jury by noon (Daniel Kaplan, SportsBusiness Journal).
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McEnroe Calls For Players To Take
On Greater Role In Leading ATP |
OVERHEAD SMASH: Int'l Tennis HOFer John McEnroe on Tuesday "castigated the ATP as 'an absolutely deplorable union ... one of the worst unions I can imagine' and called on the players to step up and seize more power in shaping the future direction of the sport." McEnroe said of the ATP: "If they had proper leadership it would go a long way towards improving our sport." McEnroe also said that players' "power in the decision-making process has diminished dramatically over the ATP's more than three-decade history and that there is a collusive relationship between tour power brokers and some tournaments creating an 'old boys network' that benefits those tournaments at the expense of the players." McEnroe: "Far as I'm concerned, players should be allowed to play where they want. They should not be told where to play. There's too many tournaments, so why do you have to tell them to play? It's politics, is what it is. These people are in bed with these people with the ATP, these tournament guys, I'm not going to mention names, and because it's so obvious I don't need to mention the name. It's like an old boys network. Why do they get it? There's plenty of other people that are chomping at the bit, I hope. We'll see" (TENNISWEEK.com, 7/23).
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