Players' union partially successful in legal challenge v ATP

Virginia, May 8 -- The Professional Tennis Players' Association (PTPA) has been partially successful in a legal challenge against the men's ATP Tour.

The association alleged the ATP tried to pressure players into signing pre-prepared statements saying they had no prior knowledge of the wider legal action launched by the PTPA against several governing bodies in March.

It sought a court order preventing the ATP from engaging in "improper, coercive or threatening communications" with players on the matter.

In Wednesday's ruling in New York, Judge Margaret Garnett found the ATP's "conduct to date, regardless of intent, could readily have been viewed as potentially coercive, deceptive or otherwise abusive".

The judge decided an ATP officia...