Coronavirus pandemic: ATP, WTA announce further suspension of all tennis events till July 31

Coronavirus pandemic: ATP, WTA announce further suspension of all tennis events till July 31

The Association for Tennis Professionals (ATP) and Women’s Tennis Association (WTA) have additional prolonged the suspension of all of the skilled tennis occasions till the top of July within the wake of the coronavirus pandemic that has introduced your entire world at standstill.

As a results of suspension, the checklist of cancelled tournaments throughout WTA and ATP have now crossed 40.

The ATP mentioned that the choice has been made in shut collaboration with Tour members. As a outcome, the tennis occasions in Hamburg, Bastad, Newport, Los Cabos, Gstaad, Umag, Atlanta and Kitzbühel is not going to happen as per schedule. The improvement can even influence the ATP Challenger Tour and males’s occasions on the ITF World Tennis Tour.

Reflecting on the identical, ATP chairman Andrea Gaudenzi expressed disappointment to additional lengthen the Tour resulting from continued uncertainties surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic.

“Just like tennis followers, gamers and event hosts everywhere in the world, we share within the disappointment the Tour continues to be affected on this method. We proceed to evaluate all of our choices in an effort to renew the Tour as quickly as it’s secure to take action, together with the feasibility of rescheduling occasions later within the season. As ever, the well being and well-being of the tennis group and wider public stays our prime precedence in each resolution we make,” the ATP official web site quoted Gaudenzi as saying.

A WTA spokesperson, then again, additionally confirmed that the ladies’s occasions in Bastad, Lausanne, Bucharest, and Jurmala scheduled for July is not going to go forward as per plan resulting from present crises.

“We regret this is the case but will continue to be guided by medical experts for when it is safe and possible to return to WTA competition. We continue to monitor the situation closely and are hopeful to be back on the court as soon as possible.A decision regarding the dates in which Karlsruhe and Palermo may be played along with further updates to the WTA calendar will be made in June,” the WTA official web site quoted the spokesperson as saying.

The ATP additional confirmed that the tournaments scheduled to be held from August 1, 2020 onwards are nonetheless planning to proceed as deliberate.

On April 2, the ATP and WTA introduced the suspension of all of the skilled tennis occasions till at the very least July 13. They had initially determined to droop the sport until June 7 within the wake of lethal coronavirus that was termed ‘pandemic’ by the World Health Organisation (WHO).

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