The celebration of the World Cup in Qatar from November 20 to December 18, an unusual date for this event, begins to generate collateral damage in other sports by the coincidence of date.
One of the sports that have been affected is tennis, since one of the great tennis events of the year, the Nitto ATP Finals (November 13-20) will overlap for several hours with the World Cup event.
This fact has led the ATP to announce this Wednesday the change of time for the individual final of the tournament scheduled for that next day 20. As the opening match of the World Cup between Qatar and Ecuador is played at 5:00 p.m. European time, the ATP has decided to postpone the individual final, also scheduled for 5:00 p.m. :00, at 7:00 p.m. that day, right at the conclusion of the match. Before that match, the doubles final will be played, which has been scheduled at 4:00 p.m. European time.
In your statement The ATP assures that it has made this decision to guarantee “the maximum global reach of the last match of the season of the ATP circuit so that fans can follow it around the world.” In addition, they confirm that this is the only match that will be affected by this change and that the rest of the matches will maintain their originally scheduled times.
