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The Australian tennis player Daria Saville, in an interview with Tennis Magazin, commented on the state of difficulty in which she finds the WTA Tour, after the problems experienced in 2023 by women’s tennis, from different points of view.
“ATP is doing a good job, in my opinion the WTA is a bit behind. I don’t know why, perhaps due to the social interest in women’s tennis. It would be nice if more young spectators came to the stadiums, that’s why I’m always very active on TikTok, that’s where kids can see how great the sport is,” said Saville.
On the controversial choice of not having the Top 30 participate in minor tournaments, Daria expained: “The people who made these decisions certainly didn’t launch this idea overnight. There are excellent ideas and reasons behind this planning, but not we will know how things will go until it happens.
At the ATP 250 in Bastad, for example, Andrey Rublev and Casper Ruud played in the final. This will no longer be possible for us, because very soon no top 10 player will be able to play this category of tournaments. In this sense, we should copy and paste some things that are done in the ATP.” Daria expressed also about…
