Both the WTA and the ATP Tour canceled tennis tournaments in China and Japan for later this yr, though the ladies’s circuit stated its WTA Finals “are still under discussion.”
The WTA stated it needed to cancel plans for occasions in Asia, which normally observe the US Open later within the season due to continued COVID-19 issues and journey restrictions. “
The tour stated it’s attempting to scale up the tournaments to supply gamers with extra alternatives to compete.
The ATP stated that the organizers of the China Open in Beijing and the Japan Open in Tokyo, the place the Summer Olympics start on July 23, “confirmed” that they have been being canceled in 2021 “due to restrictions related to COVID-19”. is.
The males’s tour stated the match in Morocco, now postponed to April, won’t be held in any respect this yr.
In different scheduling information coming Thursday, the lads’s and girls’s tournaments in Indian Wells, Calif., will probably be performed in October. That occasion was known as off in March 2020 within the early phases of the coronavirus pandemic and was postponed earlier this yr.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
