WTA News and Gossip 2020

[AnonymousFan]

Unseeded Irina Begu defeated Barthel, Townsend, Ahn, Pegula, Tsurenko, and Doi to win the Indian Wells Challenger

 

[MargaretMcAleer]

Coco Gauff has signed up for Charleston after Indian Well's cancellation,she hasn't played since January because she was saving her last eligible tournament for Indian Wells.

 

[isabelle]

will Charleston be played ?

 

[MargaretMcAleer]

The Fed Cup Finals and play offs are being postponed,event was scheduled for April 14-19 in Budapest., due to COVID-19 health concerns.

 

[MargaretMcAleer]

Still waiting for the WTA which hasn't made a decision on the European clay court season and no concrete news on Bogota and Charleston (April 6th).

 

[MargaretMcAleer]

Statement from officials,Volvo Car Open,Charleston.

"Unfortunately with the worldwide concern of the spread of the coronavirus,the decision to cancel the Miami Open and the travel advisory issued by the WTA Tour for players,based upon travel restrictions in Europe,we cannot move forward with the 2020 Volvo Car Open,scheduled for April 4-12."

 

[MargaretMcAleer]

"The WTA,working alongside our player and tournament leaders,will make a decision in the week ahead regarding the European clay court season".Steve Simon.

 

[Hoergren]

Miami and Charleston cancelled for now

 

[MargaretMcAleer]

I do not know why the WTA will not make a decision regarding the European clay court season Now,things are Not Going To Change In A Week for goodness sake,there are already travel restrictions imposed? follow the lead of the ATP.....please Steve Simon.

 

[MargaretMcAleer]

Statement from the WTA 6 hours ago, (I just got home from work,sorry about the delay).

The local and national Colombian governments took measures to cancel all public and private sports events of more than 500 people,as well as impose international border closures and travel restrictions due to the coronavirus outbreak.
As such,the Copa Colsanitas in Bogota will not be held.Additionally,the WTA 125k in Guadalajara,Mexico has been cancelled.
We are disappointed these events can not be held,but the health and safety will always come first.

 

[MargaretMcAleer]

32 year old Bulgarian Tsvetana Pironkova,former World No31 and Wimbledon s/finalist in 2010,has announced plans to return to tennis as a mother after nearly three years away from the sport.

 

[MargaretMcAleer]

Yaroslava Shvedova was returning home to Kazakhstan to be with her one year old twins after Indian Wells was cancelled.Shvedova became the first player to be held in a 14 day mandatory quaratine after being on the same flight as a passenger traveling from Milan who tested positive.Not long after arrival I was placed in stationary quarantine like all passengers of that flight.

 

[MargaretMcAleer]

Official statement from WTA on upcoming clay court swing,

"Due to the ongoing global coronavirus outbreak,the WTA tournaments in Stuttgart,Istanbul and Prague will not be held as scheduled.
At this point in time,the WTA Tour is now suspended until May 2nd".

 

[GameSetAndMath]

Official statement from WTA on upcoming clay court swing,

"Due to the ongoing global coronavirus outbreak,the WTA tournaments in Stuttgart,Istanbul and Prague will not be held as scheduled.
At this point in time,the WTA Tour is now suspended until May 2nd".

That is exactly the same time line that ATP announced. It took about 10 days for WTA to toe the line.

 

[MargaretMcAleer]

^ I did a post further up saying the WTA should follow the lead of the ATP and they eventually did,I do not understand why they waited quite frankly as the conronavirus has imploded especially in Europe,places like Spain and France.

 

[Hoergren]

French Open moved

 

[Hoergren]

Home training is spreading - here Lisicki


And this routine where Liverpool player Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain with girlfriend Perrie Edwards from Little Mix


Not easy to learn

 

[AnonymousFan]

French Open moved

Wow!!! Not far the original US Open date if that stands! At least it’ll be played Hopefully...

 

[MargaretMcAleer]

Still waiting for an official statement from the WTA regarding the re-scheduling of Roland Garos,which was due today?

Meanwhile this brings up more headaches for the WTA and the impact it will have on tournaments from September 20 to October 4 which are all in Asia.

The WTA has four events beginning in the time frame September 20th to October 4th.Soeul,Korea,Guangzhou and Wuhan in China,Tokyo in Japan.October 5th there is a shared event in Beijing.

How will the re-scheduling of Roland Garos further affect these tournaments?.

 

[MargaretMcAleer]

Official statement from the WTA,

After careful consideration due to the continuing outbreak of COVID-19 all WTA and ATP tournaments in the Spring clay court swing will not be held as scheduled.The season is now suspended through to June7.

In parallel,the FedEX ATP rankings and WTA rankings will be frozen throughout this period and until further notice.