WIMBLEDON, England (AP)– The WTA and ATP trips both canceled tennis competitions set up in China and Japan later on this year– although the females’s circuit stated its WTA Finals are “still under conversation.”
The WTA stated it needed to ditch prepare for occasions in Asia that generally follow the U.S. Open late in the season due to the fact that of “ongoing COVID-19 issues and take a trip limitations.”
The trip included that it is attempting to move competitions to use gamers more chances to contend.
The ATP stated organizers of the China Open in Beijing and the Japan Open in Tokyo– where the Summer season Olympics are arranged to start July 23– “verified” they’re being canceled in 2021 “due to constraints connected to COVID-19”
The guys’s trip included that a competition in Morocco held off in April now would not be held at all this year.
In other scheduling news that got here Thursday, the guys’s and ladies’s competitions at Indian Wells, California, will be played in October. That occasion was cancelled in March 2020 in the early phases of the coronavirus pandemic and held off previously this year.
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