A Lack of official confirmation by the ATP, the newspaper L ‘Equipe has advanced the calendar of the men’s circuit for the first part of the season. Tennis, in the men’s category, will begin in Delray Beach (January 4-13).
Then the tennis players will take a flight to Melbourne where a 14-day quarantine awaits them where they can go out to train for five hours. From February 1 to 7, as a prelude to the Australian Open, the second edition of the ATP Cup and an Open 250 will be held. It remains to know what the format of the ATP World Cup by teams will be like and that at the beginning of 2020 it brought together 24 countries in three different venues: Perth, Brisbane and Sydney.
At the conclusion of the first major, the tournaments of Montpellier, Cordoba and a third newly created category 250 that could be in the Persian Gulf appear.. From March 1 to 7, Rotterdam, Buenos Aires and another 250 will be played. Then they will go, from 8 to 14 of the same month, Doha, Marseille and Santiago de Chile500. Finally, from the 15th to the 21st the Open 500 in Acapulco and Dubi will be played, waiting to see if the Masters 1,000 in Miami can be played on the scheduled dates.
Indian Wells will change dates pending the improvement of the pandemic in California and specifically in the Coachella Valley area where the TMS is disputed. Both ATP and WTA do not want to renounce the presence of the tournament on the calendar and are looking for dates to adapt it.
At first, and given the tightness of 2021, which includes the tensile test of the Tokyo Olympics, Indian Wells will be placed after the US Open and before the Asian tour in October.
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