Your current location:HOME >sport >Saudi Arabia is going to sponsor the WTA women's tennis rankings under a new partnership 正文
TIME:2024-05-21 15:31:02 Source: Internet compilationEdit:sport
NEW YORK (AP) — Saudi Arabia’s move into tennis will now include a multiyear deal to sponsor the WTA
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.
Here comes the char2024-05-21 15:26
UK cuts national insurance contributions for workers in spring budget2024-05-21 15:14
Feature: China's rural poor find new horizons in infrastructure development2024-05-21 14:39
Tori Spelling admits she once put on her son's diaper and PEED in it while stuck in traffic2024-05-21 14:07
Amir Khan's £11.5m luxury wedding venue finally hosts its first marriage: Bride arrives on horse2024-05-21 13:19
German delegation seeks deeper cooperation with central China's Wuhan2024-05-21 13:14
Ryan Reynolds says Michael J. Fox helped his late father James 'feel less alone' in his 202024-05-21 12:58
Jersey Shore: Family Vacation: Sammi 'Sweetheart' Giancola and ex2024-05-21 12:52
Shohei Ohtani's first walk2024-05-21 12:48
Dick Van Dyke earns historic Daytime Emmy nomination at...2024-05-21 12:48
Rangers are undefeated at .500 to keep World Series champs from a losing record with Bochy2024-05-21 15:29
Blinken reiterates U.S. opposition to Israeli invasion of Rafah2024-05-21 15:13
Maine gun store owner adopts calf that was rejected by its mother and left alone in the woods2024-05-21 14:54
German delegation seeks deeper cooperation with central China's Wuhan2024-05-21 14:28
Six killed in a 'foiled coup' in Congo, the army says2024-05-21 13:46
Jersey Shore: Family Vacation: Sammi 'Sweetheart' Giancola and ex2024-05-21 13:38
Maine gun store owner adopts calf that was rejected by its mother and left alone in the woods2024-05-21 13:30
Grassroots lawmaker uses technology to empower eco2024-05-21 13:16
Saudi Arabia is going to sponsor the WTA women's tennis rankings under a new partnership2024-05-21 13:03
Big Brother 'forced to DEMOLISH iconic house due to drunken chaos and failed James Bond twist'2024-05-21 12:57