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  • 6 - Professional Tennis Player Unions

  • from Part 1 - Contractual
  • Edited by Ilias Bantekas, Hamad bin Khalifa University, Marko Begović, Molde University College
  • Book:
    Professional Tennis and Transnational Law
    Published online:
    07 August 2025
    Print publication:
    21 August 2025, pp 105-144
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    The player explores the history of professional unions in tennis up to the current day. It starts by setting out the dual and shifting roles of tennis player unions, which at all times of its history ranged from a collective action to shared governance. It goes on to ponder what actually is a professional tennis players’ union and lays out a framework for the trade union rights of professional tennis players. Its historical account throws light at initial attempts at player unionization and the pivotal role of player unionization in 1967–75. This led to pro tennis’s labor settlement – business in lieu of bargaining, which in turn culminated in the so-called “Seven Kingdoms” – player voice, rights, pay and conditions in professional tennis, which is the current status. The chapter explores these seven kingdoms and the latest development with the PTPA, which was established in 2020.