A few days ago, WTA President Simon said in an interview that in view of the current development situation in the world women's tennis world and the attitude of various tennis associations, they hope that WTA can return to China in the 2023 season. The remarks sparked a heated debate in the domestic tennis scene, after the WTA issued an announcement on the official platform, claiming that it would not host an international women's tennis tournament in China in the future. But they didn't want to have their heads bowed and raised in just a few months. In this regard, domestic netizens have said that they cannot let the WTA be too arbitrary, and their practice of calling and lingering, the major tennis associations must make a strong response, otherwise they will never learn to be obedient.
As we all know, today's world women's tennis world has been dimly star-studded, and there is no famous scene of Big Williams and Little Williams sisters tearing each other apart, and it is difficult to emerge phenomenon-level players such as Christers, Sharapova, and Li Na. Previously, former women's singles world number one Barty announced the end of his career in advance, which caused a sensation throughout the WTA arena for a while. After winning four Grand Slam titles, Japan's Naomi Osaka originally thought she would dominate the world women's tennis.
However, due to her limited competitiveness on clay courts and grass courts, it is basically impossible to win a Grand Slam. In the past two seasons, Naomi Osaka's form has declined again, and she has gradually faded from the top players. Poland's Svatek is currently in the limelight at WTA, not only winning consecutive women's singles titles in various races this season, but also taking a cliff-like lead in world rankings. But in everyone's opinion, no matter what, players such as Svatek, Sabalenka, and Sakari have never been able to reach the heights of stars such as Big Wei, Sava, and Li Na.
This gap is not only reflected in personal achievement, social influence and attention, but also in terms of commercial value, event sponsorship and capital spillover.
In recent years, the development of the entire WTA has fallen into unprecedented difficulties, in stark contrast to ATP. Previously, many WTA events have begun to gradually reduce player game bonuses, and in the aspects of event packaging, operation management, service system, etc., there is no posture of the past with deep pockets. As the chairman of the WTA, Simon, who has always been sharp and sharp, also seemed a little helpless in an interview.
Speaking about the future development of WTA, he said that WTA has been looking for effective solutions to problems and hopes to find a best solution acceptable to all parties. Regarding the previous decision not to hold events in China, he stressed that the WTA has no intention of completely withdrawing, but only temporarily suspending the holding of events there. He also added that if it could, the WTA hoped to return to China in the 2023 season with a resolution that had already made progress. Hearing this remark, domestic netizens seem to be unable to sit still, and even some people angrily rebuked, "Red mouth and white teeth, believe you are strange"!
(Luo Treasurer)