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October 4, 2007

BY ELECTRONIC FILING
The Honorable Gregory M. Sleet, Chief Judge United States District Court

for the District of Delaware 844 North King Street Lockbox 19
Wilmington, Delaware 19801 Re: Deutscher Tennis Bund, et al. v. ATP Tour, Inc. et al., C.A. No. 07-178-GMS

Dear Judge Sleet: In anticipation of the discovery teleconference scheduled for Tuesday, October 9, 2007, at 2 p.m. (EST) in the above matter, the parties jointly submit the following items to be presented to the Court: Plaintiffs' Issues:

The propriety of ATP's designation of more than 90,000 pages of documents as privileged and potential remedies for this over-designation. Relatedly, the ATP's witl-Bolding of certain documents created or received by its CEO-Americas and General Counsel Marie Young as attorney-client privileged. The propriety of the ATP's document production given its blanket designation of documents as "confidential" or "restricted confidential" under the protective order.

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YOUNG CONAWAY STARGATT & TAYLOR, LLP October 4, 2007 Page 2 3. The ATP' s refusal to produce responsive , non-privileged documents in response to Plaintiffs' First Requests for Production , on an ongoing basis, or to the Second Requests for Production. The ATP' s failure to appear at multiple 30(b)(6 ) depositions and refusal to provide additional 30(b)(6) depositions. Production of documents relating to the ATP' s settlement with Monte Carlo. The ATP's failure to produce a privilege and redaction log. The ATP' s failure to provide available dates for the depositions of witnesses. Defendants' Issues: Defendants request that the Court require Plaintiffs to produce all responsive documents from the files of all "key players" (as defined by the Coordinated Scheduling Order), as well as from the files of all Supervisory Board members, and from the files of the Plaintiffs' accountants, auditors, and outside counsel. These documents are identified in Defendants' letters of September 6, 23, and 24, 2007. 2. Defendants request that the Court require Plaintiffs to provide available dates for the depositions of the witnesses requested by Defendants, including dates when witnesses will be produced in response to Defendants' Notice of Deposition under Rule 30(b)(6) and dates for the continued deposition of Dr. von WaldenfeIs. Defendants request that the Court require Defendants to withdraw their assertions of privilege and work product protections with respect to documents identified in Defendants' letter of September 24, 2007.

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Respectfully submitted,

C. Barr Flinn (No. 40}2)
CC' Clerk of the Court (by electronic filing/hand delivery) Lawrence C. Ashby, Esquire (by electronic filing/hand delivery) Philip Trainer, Jr., Esquire (by electronic filing/hand delivery) Bradley R. Ruskin, Esquire (by e-mail) Jennifer R. Scullion, Esquire (by e-mail) Robert D. MacGill, Esquire (by e-mail) Hamish S. Cohen, Esquire (by e-mail)

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