Backhand tennis: China suspends its international events

The tennis season It has not yet resumed and is reeling ever more. The focus of the doubts, mainly focused on the US Open Because the United States is the country with the most cases of infections and deaths from COVID-19 worldwide, it changes course, going from the American to the Asian tour. The middle Xinhua advanced the news this Thursday: China will not hold international sporting events in 2020.

This was communicated by China General Administration of Sport, therefore, the ATP and WTA tournaments that the Asian country hoped to host, which largely make up almost the entire Asian tennis tour, would not be played this season. The ATP hoped to celebrate in China, after the tournaments for North American lands of Washington (August 14), Cincinnati (August 22) and US Open (August 31 to September 13), the quotes from Chengdu 250, Zhuhai 250, Beijing 500 and the Shanghai Masters 1000.

For its part, the WTA circuit was even more optimistic about the situation in China (although it already canceled some tournaments there), as it expected to hold a total of seven tournaments around the country, including the end of the season with the eight best rackets on the circuit. So, except for an unexpected turn of events, Beijing, Nanchang, Wuhan, Zhengzhou, the Shenzhen WTA Finals, Zhuhai “Elite Trophy” and Guangzhou say goodbye to the 2020 course.

Formula 1 was still hoping to relocate the Chinese GP (Shanghai) which was postponed in April, but is up in the air. It would also affect the badminton world tour and Carolina Marín if the China Open, Fuzhou and the Guangzhou Finals are not played. In golf, the HSBC in Shanghai is in danger and the Diamond of athletics in September in the same city.

This being the case, the only sporting event that will have the green light in China will be the rehearsals of the Olympic tests of the Beijing Winter Games 2022. Another hard setback for tennis …