WTA suspends tour until May 2 due to coronavirus


  • Tennis
  • Monday, 16 Mar 2020

Stacey Allaster (L), Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Women's Tennis Association (WTA), speaks next to Singapore Sports Council's CEO Lim Teck Yin during a WTA announcement in Singapore May 8, 2013. Singapore will host the glittering annual finale of the women's tennis season from 2014 until 2018, the WTA said on Wednesday. REUTERS/Edgar Su

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The Women's Tennis Association has suspended play until May 2 as the coronavirus pandemic continued its unprecedented shutdown of world sport on Monday.

WTA said tournaments in Stuttgart, Istanbul and Prague will "not be held as scheduled".

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