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Alcaraz says 'doesn't support' Djokovic-backed lawsuit

Wimbledon champion Carlos Alcaraz pushed back on a lawsuit against the ATP Tour filed by the Novak Djokovic-led tennis players union on Wednesday, saying he does not support the move.The PTPA filing cites an Alcaraz quote from a press conference in which he criticised the tour schedule and the player said he was not aware of that decision.

Carlos Alcaraz doesn't support the lawsuit from the tennis players' group Novak Djokovic founded

Four-time Grand Slam champion Carlos Alcaraz was unaware that there would be a class-action lawsuit filed in U.S. federal court against some of the groups that run tennis and made clear Wednesday that he does not back the effort by the players' association co-founded by Novak Djokovic.

What tennis players really want from a lawsuit against their sport

Tuesday’s tennis antitrust lawsuit issued by the Professional Tennis Players Association (PTPA) and player plaintiffs from across the men’s and women’s game labeled the biggest governing bodies in tennis as a “cartel” and accused them of running a “corrupt, abusive and illegal” system. The central allegations in the document are that the defendants, the ATP and WTA Tours and the International Tennis Federation (ITF), fix prize money, suppress competition, subject players to a punishing schedule

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