FILE PHOTO: Tennis - WTA Tour Finals - Singapore Indoor Stadium, Singapore - October 29, 2017. Switzerland's Martina Hingis is presented with gifts from CEO Of The WTA, Steve Simon. REUTERS/Edgar Su/File Photo
MUMBAI (Reuters) - WTA chief Steve Simon cannot wait for the Tour to get back up and running in Sicily next month and hopes the Palermo Open will provide a blueprint for tournament operations amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
The women's claycourt tournament, which gets underway in the Sicilian capital on Aug. 3, will be the first across both the WTA or ATP tours since they were suspended in early March because of the novel coronavirus outbreak.
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