There will be no World Tennis Tour events held in China in 2022, an Global Tennis Federation (ITF) offer confirmed to Reuters on Thursday.
There will be no World Tennis Tour events held in China in 2022, an Global Tennis Federation (ITF) offer confirmed to Reuters on Thursday.
The provision did no longer explain if the transfer used to be linked to considerations over the health and safety of doubles superstar Peng Shuai.
In the last burly season in 2019 earlier than the COVID-19 pandemic, China hosted about 25 ITF ladies folks’s and 15 males’s events.
World Tennis Tour events are expert tournaments under the elite stage. The ITF Ladies folks`s World Tennis Tour provides roughly 500 tournaments all over 65 international locations offering prize money from $15,000 to $100,000.
“No males’s or ladies folks’s ITF World Tennis Tour tournaments are scheduled to be performed in China in 2022,” an ITF offer suggested Reuters without offering from now on particulars.
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— ITF (@ITFTennis) November 19, 2021
The ITF gave no living off of the likelihood nonetheless it follows the Ladies folks`s Tennis Affiliation`s (WTA) transfer to slump tournaments in China following Peng`s accusations of sexual assault against a traditional vice premier.
Peng, a traditional doubles world quantity 1, used to be unseen in public for nearly three weeks after she posted a message on social media in November accusing China`s traditional Vice-Premier Zhang Gaoli of forcing her into intercourse, alongside with her whereabouts becoming a subject of world challenge.
Not like the WTA, the ITF doesn’t indulge in main expert tournaments in China and is extra thinking grassroots style events.
