SINGAPORE: The Women’s Tennis Association offered only lukewarm support for the new International Premier Tennis League yesterday, with some details still sketchy even after the player draft.
Melissa Pine, the WTA’s Asia-Pacific vice-president and tournament director of this year’s WTA Championships in Singapore, also raised concerns over possible player burn-out related to the new “exhibition” event.
Pine admitted the body which oversees women’s tennis remains unclear on aspects of the IPTL, a multi-city team tournament to be played in Asia and the Middle East from late this year.
“We’re really just reading about it as you are. We don’t have a lot of details on the IPTL,” Pine said, as BNP Paribas was announced as the WTA Championships’ sponsor on a five-year deal.
AFP
