Caroline Garcia ends her season - why not?
After Serena and Venus Williams , Caroline Garcia has also ended her 2020 season. As things stand, the three players are missing exactly one tournament: Ostrava.
by tennisnet.com
last edit: Oct 07, 2020, 10:45 am
Barbara Rittner recently told Eurosport that the original planning for the indoor events in Cologne actually included one tournament for the men and one for the women. That the WTA has not received any productive feedback. And so now Alexander Zverev and Co. are playing for ATP points two weeks in a row.
What now means for the female tennis professionals: Off to Ostrava. And hope that there may still be a job opportunity in Linz. Because the short-term consideration of possibly moving the WTA final from Shenzhen to Hawaii was rejected as quickly as it had arisen.
And so it is not particularly surprising that more and more players are already saying goodbye to this time's long vacation. As the last Caroline Garcia, who failed in Roland Garros because of Elina Svitolina . Garcia is officially curing an injury, as she announced on Twitter.
New edition of the merger idea between WTA and ATP?
Appearances by Serena and Venus Williams were no longer to be expected in autumn 2020, especially since Serena had already noted before the start of the French Open that she would not actually compete this late in the year (the WTA season finale is on the priority- List of 23-time major winners also slipped very far back in recent years).
It has long been clear that Ashleigh Barty , the world number leader, will devote himself to other things in the coming months. Even if there were more and better options than a single tournament in Ostrava. What the discussion at the beginning of the Corona break about the merger between the ATP and the WTA should possibly get going again. Alone: Nothing can be heard from the women. And the men are busy: they have a few tournaments to play. And in the background there is also the PTPA, the players' association founded by Novak Djokovic, of which little has been heard since it was founded at the US Open.