How many tournaments does the Australian Open delay affect?

In the absence of official confirmation and with the possibility that the tournament may even be suspended, the Australian Open will delay its dates from January 18 to 31 to February 8 to 21. If this happens a number of tournaments, some before the first Grand Slam of the season and others after, would be affected and would have to move, lose participants and level or be canceled. The fact is that players, in principle, would have to quarantine for 14 days before the Australian Open, with heavy restrictions that have already received criticism and have not yet been approved by the ATP Players Council. to which Rafa Nadal and Roger Federer belong, but not the number one in the world, who leads his own union with a group of acolytes, the PTPA. The tennis players could arrive in Oceania between January 15 and 17.

Although the calendar is completely conditioned by the coronavirus pandemic and only the ATP has published a forecast for 2021 (the WTA has not yet made its plan official), a total of 13 men's and nine women's tournaments would be affected. In the first case, there would be the ATP Cup (January 1 to 10), Doha (January 4 to 10), Adelaide and Auckland (January 11 to 17), before the Australian Open; later, Córdoba, Montpellier and Pune (February 1 to 7), Rotterdam, Buenos Aires and New York (February 8 to 14) and Rio, Delray Beach and Marseille (February 15 to 21).

As for the WTA, although here we have to speculate with the programming that was in 2020 without determining dates and taking into account that this year the entire Asian tour was canceled, Shenzhen, Brisbane, Auckland, Hobart, Adelaide, Newport Beach, Saint Petersburg, Hua Hin and Dubai should be suspended, changed or relocated. It is possible that there will be changes not only of nomenclature but of venues in some tournaments. The fact is that the disorder of the more than possible postponement of the Australian Open will be great in both circuits.