NEW YORK (AP) — Saudi Arabia’s move into tennis will now include a multiyear deal to sponsor the WTA women’s rankings.
The WTA released word of its partnership agreement with Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF) on Monday, a move that follows last month’s news that the kingdom will host the tour’s season-ending championships in Riyadh starting this year and February’s announcement that it will sponsor the ATP men’s rankings.
Both tours’ rankings deals are for five years.
The PIF is the first naming-rights partner for the WTA rankings and the new arrangement also includes plans to promote tennis at lower levels of the sport.
Tennis has been consumed lately by the debate over whether the sport should follow golf and others in making deals with Saudi Arabia, where rights groups say women continue to face discrimination in most aspects of family life and homosexuality is a major taboo, as it is in much of the rest of the Middle East.
Related articles:
Related suggestion:
China expects 5.75M railway passenger trips MondaySpanish travel industry happy to see China's return as major tourist destinationHoliday trips ride high on cultural questsHong Kong sees steady recovery in visitors in 2023Champions League is being expanded and EPL teams have failed to take advantageYamamoto pitches six scoreless innings and Pages hits a 2Winning, not experimenting, is Bangladesh priority against Zimbabwe in T20 seriesDomestic theme parks see surging visits during Spring FestivalIce and snow warm up winter tourism in Northeast ChinaCoach sees challenges for women's basketball team at Paris 2024
3.1558s , 5502.5546875 kb
Copyright © 2024 Powered by Saudi Arabia is going to sponsor the WTA women's tennis rankings under a new partnership ,Worldly Wonders news portal