Dubai Tennis Championships to be now held from March 8-20

Dubai: The dates for the annual Dubai Obligation Free Tennis Championships have been confirmed with the two-week occasion, a key occasion within the metropolis’s sporting and social calendar, now pushed to it’s its new time slot from March 8-20.

As per the preliminary calendar, the Dubai Tennis Championships have been scheduled to be held from February 14-27 however with the postponement and re-scheduling of occasions as a result of prevailing COVID-19 state of affairs, the WTA and ATP have now labored out contemporary dates.

Earlier this week, the WTA joined the boys’s Tour in confirming a collection of tournaments until The Championships in Wimbledon within the first half of July.

Having beforehand introduced the primary seven weeks of the season, this newest replace covers the subsequent 20 weeks of the 2021 season – from the continuing inaugural Abu Dhabi WTA Ladies’s Tennis Open by to the Wimbledon in July.

The primary 4 WTA 1,000 occasions of the 12 months are additionally represented, together with the Dubai Obligation Free Tennis Championships, Miami Open introduced by Itaú, the Mutua Madrid Open and the Internazionali BNL d’Italia (Rome).

The ATP had adopted up its re-configured schedule for the primary seven weeks earlier in December with a revised schedule for weeks 8 to 13 of the 2021 ATP Tour season as the game continued its return in the course of the pandemic.

As per the newest calendar, a number of early-season occasions have been scheduled after the Australian Open, together with the European Indoor, Latin American and Center East swings – together with Doha and Dubai – that lead into the Miami Open within the closing two weeks of March.

For the time-being, the BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells will not be being held in its customary dates in March and the ATP is assessing various dates for the match to probably happen later within the season.

As per the WTA Tour, additional updates to the calendar might be introduced in the end, together with the second version of the year-end Shiseido WTA Finals Shenzhen.

In final 12 months’s finals, Simona Halep defeated Elena Rybakina in three robust units for her second crown in Dubai, whereas Novak Djokovic maintained his successful momentum for the season with a straight units win over Greek teenager Stefanos Tsitsipas for the boys’s title.