The WTA Finals this week - whos following it? Seems stadium isnt built yet so players havent been able to practice adequately , play starts today.

Shambolic again.

Meanwhile the Elite event in China passed by last week pretty much without notice by the tennis press.

WTA needs to sort itself out.

JonH comes home wrote:

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The WTA Finals this week - whos following it? Seems stadium isnt built yet so players havent been able to practice adequately , play starts today.

Shambolic again.

Meanwhile the Elite event in China passed by last week pretty much without notice by the tennis press.

WTA needs to sort itself out.

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 Beatriz Haddad Maia (8) won both the singles and doubles events (with Kudermetova seeded 1). Even the WTA has posted limited news other than the results.

I was thinking about the ATP and WTA Finals and the fact they are often a) an anti climax b) more about the maths than the tennis c) womens event sparsely spectated.

Id merge them into the World Tennis Championships or some such. 8 men and 8 women, 8 pairs of each. Singles play , not groups. Youd still have 28 matches in one week as opposed to 30 currently (in each of 2 weeks) but maybe make it more of an occasion.

As predicted , a number of players in the BJK Cup are still playing in Cancun- doubles players from Australia , Canada and Germany. Still think this is unforgivable of the WTA to create this issue.

Tennis, what are we doing? I mean, what are we doing?

We have the Premier event for the WTA Tour just be a farce all week, court not ready until last minute, lots of rain, high winds not making for great tennis, no one in the crowd. Now a Monday finish, and the Premier team event finals start the day after in a different continent. If one or both of the Aussie girls make the doubles final, they will presumably be due to play again less than 24 hours later in Seville as their match starts 10am Tuesday. Not to mention most of the top singles players just didnt play in the first place because of the schedule.

Can the WTA show some organisation, choose finals more than a year in advance - preferably indoors or somewhere with guaranteed good weather and just sort out your tournament calendar in general which is way too skinny.

ITF just go back to old format of Davis Cup and Fed Cup. Around 100 players have had to extend their seasons - most by a few weeks - to play on the BJK Cup finals and play offs next week. In the old format this was just the two teams so 10 players - and they knew they were playing in something special - this is not. Not to mention home and away ties is what the fans and players want.

ATP not much better putting on ATP 250s the week before the finals which count for qualification meaning potentially some players arrive knackered.

Davis Cup finals finish 26th November, United Cup starts 29th December.

Tennis schedulers please, please stop having order of plays you look at and think well that has the potential to go on way past midnight.

No more two week Masters events, they are boring and lead to less weeks in the calendar.

Hopefully this week has been so bad and such negative publicity there will be some line in the sand moments.

JonH comes home wrote:

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wolf wrote:

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Tennis, what are we doing? I mean, what are we doing?

We have the Premier event for the WTA Tour just be a farce all week, court not ready until last minute, lots of rain, high winds not making for great tennis, no one in the crowd. Now a Monday finish, and the Premier team event finals start the day after in a different continent. If one or both of the Aussie girls make the doubles final, they will presumably be due to play again less than 24 hours later in Seville as their match starts 10am Tuesday. Not to mention most of the top singles players just didnt play in the first place because of the schedule.

Can the WTA show some organisation, choose finals more than a year in advance - preferably indoors or somewhere with guaranteed good weather and just sort out your tournament calendar in general which is way too skinny.

ITF just go back to old format of Davis Cup and Fed Cup. Around 100 players have had to extend their seasons - most by a few weeks - to play on the BJK Cup finals and play offs next week. In the old format this was just the two teams so 10 players - and they knew they were playing in something special - this is not. Not to mention home and away ties is what the fans and players want.

ATP not much better putting on ATP 250s the week before the finals which count for qualification meaning potentially some players arrive knackered.

Davis Cup finals finish 26th November, United Cup starts 29th December.

Tennis schedulers please, please stop having order of plays you look at and think well that has the potential to go on way past midnight.

No more two week Masters events, they are boring and lead to less weeks in the calendar.

Hopefully this week has been so bad and such negative publicity there will be some line in the sand moments.

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 This!

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 Now I thought the WTA final was going to be in Saudi but they chose Cancun instead as Evert, Mcenroe and Navratilove voiced opposition to the venue. I am not going to get into politics but purely for the tennis Saidi would be better.