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WTA and ATP in a single Tour thanks to the aegis of Saudi Arabia, which reportedly have offered $2 billion to purchase the two main associations, the ATP and the WTA, with the aim of merging the two tours into a single super Tours.
Simon Briggs, British journalist for the Telegraph, revealed that the Public Investment Fund, Saudi Arabia’s sovereign investment fund, would have offered two billion dollars to buy the two main world tennis associations.
A sensational offer, with a deadline of 90 days, which ATP president Andrea Gaudenzi is seriously considering. What is currently only an indiscretion, if confirmed, could overturn tennis as we know it.
Given the well-known and huge economic problems that have hit the WTA in recent years, the offer could be evaluated to restore the women’s movement.
Saudi Arabia had repeatedly expressed its desire to organize an ATP Master 1000, but the already very busy calendar would force the ATP to evaluate two solutions.
The least likely one is to include a further event on the calendar and the other which would involve the replacement of one of the tournaments already present with the Saudi one.
For the moment the only federation certainly against it is Tennis Australia, with Craig…
