Aurélien CANOT, Media365, published on Monday 06 December 2021 at 17:41
The WTA on Monday unveiled the schedule for the first half of next season. The first six months alone will include three Grand Slam tournaments and four WTA 1000s.
A very generous menu, not far from being indigestible. The WTA unveiled the schedule for the first half of next season on Monday, and the least we can say is that it will not be easy for the players of the circuit. The authority has thus reserved a hellish pace over these first six months, with in this first part of the season alone, three Grand Slam tournaments on the schedule, but also four WTA 1000, that is to say the most prestigious tests which are with the precise exception of the four Majors. However, it is a less gargantuan meeting, in this case Adelaide, classified in the category of WTA 500, which will open the ball, from January 3, 2022, while Melbourne will host two WTA 250. All in preamble of the first Grand Slam tournament of the Australian Open season, scheduled from January 17 to 30. Another highly anticipated meeting of the start of the season and the first WTA 1000 on the calendar of the year, Indian Wells will take place in March, followed, as tradition dictates, by another WTA 1000, this time in Miami (Florida). ).
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The following month will see the players start the season on clay, first in the United States, with the WTA 500 in Charleston, then in Colombia, where the Bogota tournament (WTA 250) will take place from April 4 to 10. Or a big month before Roland-Garros, scheduled for 2022 from May 22 to June 5. Then place on the grass and Wimbledon, the third round of the Grand Slam, which will begin on June 27 and end on July 9. Participants in this third Major over the first six months will be able to prepare on the side of Nottingham or S’Hertogenbosch (WTA 250) at first, at the beginning of June, and (or), later, on the occasion of the Berlin tournaments. and Eastbourne (WTA 500). “The WTA 2022 tour schedule will once again provide a prestigious stage for the world’s best tennis players,” WTA President and CEO Steve Simon said on Monday.
