LONDON: The Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) and Women’s Tennis Association (WTA) on Wednesday announced that due to the continuing outbreak of the novel coronavirus pandemic, top-level tennis will not be returning to the respective tours till at least the second week of June.
As a result of the enforced break due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, all ATP and WTA tournaments in the Spring clay-court swing will not be held as scheduled.
A joint announcement by the ATP and WTA reads: “The professional tennis season is now suspended through 7 June 2020, including the ATP Challenger Tour and ITF World Tennis Tour. At this time, tournaments taking place from 8 June 2020 onwards are still planning to go ahead as per the published schedule.”
The tournaments that will be affected are the ATP/WTA tournaments in Madrid and Rome, along with the WTA events in Strasbourg and Rabat and ATP events in Munich, Estoril, Geneva and Lyon.
As a result of the suspension, it has also been announced that all the ATP and WTA rankings will be frozen throughout the period.
The latest announcement follows on from and extends the six-week suspension of the professional tennis tours that is already in play.
