As the Abu Dhabi ladies’s event begins this Wednesday (January 6 to 13), the males’s circuit will begin Thursday with the ATP 250 from Antalya and Delray Beach (January 7 to 13) with modest castings.
After a 12 months 2020 reduce by 5 months and marked by many cancellations, due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the 2021 season ought to (a priori) happen nearly usually. The males’s circuit will begin on January 7 and finish on November 21 with the Turin Masters. The Davis Cup will shut the 12 months in Madrid (22-28 November). The WTA (ladies’s circuit) introduced Tuesday a provisional schedule till June-July. The begin of the season has in any case already been thwarted. The Australian Open has been postponed for 3 weeks, with qualifying moved to Doha for the males and Dubai for the ladies. And the Covid-19 has made new “victims”. Many gamers have withdrawn from the first two tournaments of the 12 months, in Delray Beach and Antalya, the place they have been initially registered.
Fears of the virus
In the occasion of contamination or contact with an individual constructive for Covid-19, a 10-day quarantine is imposed. With the departure for Australia and its two-week quarantine scheduled between January 15 and 17, some have performed it secure to give themselves an opportunity to play the Australian Open with out a hitch from February 8 … The Italian prodigy Jannik Sinner, the French Benoît Paire or the Croatian Borna Coric have thus determined to withdraw from the Turkish event the place the headliners can be the Italians Matteo Berrettini and Fabio Fognini, 10e and 17e international. And the Florida take a look at suffered much more from the packages. Milos Raonic (14e at ATP) or the Japanese Kei Nishikori, former world quantity 4, threw in the towel. The seed number one being the Chilean Cristian Garin, 22e international. Frenchman Adrian Mannarino, ranked 34e world rank, being seeded 3 …
In Abu Dhabi, the ladies formally begin the season with an expanded roster of 64 gamers and the next solid. It is the solely event in the historical past of the WTA that can be performed with out sponsors on the tarpaulins round the courts. “We don’t have any sponsors. The objective of this event is not commercial, our goal is to give work to the players of the circuit. And I can tell you that from the start of the discussions with the WTA we were on the same line, ”defined event director Bharat Godkhindi.
And seven of the prime twenty gamers in the world reply the name, together with Sofia Kenin, 4e world chief and seed 1, and Elina Svitolina, 5e at the WTA. Except Caroline Garcia who forfeited, the greatest French can be current. Kristina Mladenovic and Fiona Ferro are notably in competition in the Emirates. After this clean restoration, it will likely be time for the touring caravan to flip round to Australia and its tennis orgy. No less than 7 events will thus take place in Melbourne. The Australian tour will start on January 31st with 2 WTA 500 and 2 ATP 250. During this same week the ATP Cup will take place and from the 8th, the Australian Open will start. Then, in the second week, of the Grand Slam, the eliminated ones of the first week will be able to turn to a WTA 250 …
