Midway through a Masters 1000 event—and days after another wrapped—most of the chatter has not been about tennis but about the lawsuit the Professional Tennis Players Association brought against tennis’s various institutions in the three different jurisdictions. Read it here.
This suit is a players’ rights manifesto and an attempted shot across tennis’s bow. It’s being sold as a “courageous challenge to the status quo.” And the status quo does need challenging. Even the ATP’s recent PowerPoint to the majors is titled “The Future Won’t Wait for Tennis.” The question is whether this lawsuit is the way toward meaningful change.
