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We still don’t known where and when this year’s WTA Finals will take place. The event is likely to start on October 30, which means there are only two months left. Initially, it seemed that the tournament would return to Chinese Shenzhen, but for the past few weeks there has been a lot of talk about Riyadh in Saudi Arabia.The Czech sports portal Isport.blesk.cz reports that businessman Tomas Petera has submitted a proposal to the women’s tennis federation to host the event in Ostrava.
“The WTA has an official offer from me and they take it seriously” Petera said. If he succeeds, he will organize an event in Ostrava this year, and in Prague for the next three or four years.From 2014 to 2018 the WTA Finals event was held in Singapore.
A year later players competed in Shenzhen. The Chinese were supposed to organize the competition for 10 years, but everything changed due to the pandemic and the Peng Shuai affair. In last season the tournament were in Fort Worth.
The stands were not full, players complained about the organization.Tomas Petera said that the atmosphere at tournaments in the Czech Republic would be completely different. “For Czech tennis, the…
