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7/22/08 10:25 AM | Johan Lindahl
Boris Becker hopes that the lawsuit between the Hamburg Masters and the ATP can perhaps be settled without a full-blown legal battle after beginning this week in Delaware.
The Hamburg tournament, through the federation (DTB) is claiming in a Delaware court that by downgrading the event for 2009, the ATP is running a tennis monopoly.
American lawyers say the sanctioning body has created an anti-competitive marketplace thanks to a calendar shake-up next season which demoted Hamburg from the elite level and switches it from May into a late July time frame.
“I'm not involved in the details”, said the 40-year-old Boris Becker player profile" style="border-bottom: 1px dotted #000">Becker, architect along with Steffi Graf of the German tennis boom of the 1980s.
“Obviously I support the German Tennis Federation, but I can't tell you the latest scope of who's wrong and right and so forth. I just hope they solve it for the best”, said Boris Becker player profile" style="border-bottom: 1px dotted #000">Becker.
At stake in an action worth more than $75 million is the issue of whether a sanctioning body has the right to draw up a schedule over the objection of members. Negotiations to settle before a court date have failed, according to both sides.
“Once you go for trial there's bound to be a winner and a loser”, said Boris Becker player profile" style="border-bottom: 1px dotted #000">Becker. “I don't think that's so good”.
“Hopefully the two sides will find a way before there is a final verdict to find a solution”.
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