The Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) will exclude all tournaments in China from the schedule for the current season, Sports Illustrated reporter John Wertheim said on Twitter.
According to him, the ATP will follow the example of the Women’s Tennis Association (WTA) and cancel all tournaments in the country scheduled for 2022. In this case, the decision will be officially justified by the coronavirus pandemic, not by the situation. with the Chinese tennis player. Peng Shuai .
In April, WTA chief Steve Simon confirmed that China would not hold tournaments under the auspices of the organization this year.
Men’s tournaments are scheduled for September in Chengdu and Zhuhai in China, and a tournament in Beijing and a Masters in Shanghai are scheduled for October.
In November 2021, Peng Shuai posted on social media that she had been sexually harassed by Zhang Gaoli. Later, the post was deleted and the tennis player’s accounts disappeared from social networks. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) later announced that the organization’s president, Thomas Bach, had spoken with Peng Shuai via video conference, and she said she was fine. In February, in an interview with L’Equipe, a Chinese woman said she had not been sexually assaulted.
Source : MatchTV
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