Federer, the King of Swiss tennis, expressed “extreme shock” to the cancellation of Wimbledon tennis tournament this year. As the global tennis tournament was suspended until July 13, the world tennis world was also in panic and bitter voice.
Xinhua News Agency, Beijing, April 2 (reporter Zheng Daojin, Zhang Wei, Liu Wei) with the continuous spread of the Global New Coronavirus epidemic, various sports events in the world have been announced to postpone or cancel. Federer, the King of Swiss tennis, expressed “extreme shock” to the cancellation of Wimbledon tennis tournament this year. As the global tennis tournament was suspended until July 13, the world tennis world was also in panic and bitter voice.
The British Club issued a statement on the 1st, saying that they were extremely regretful to cancel the Wimbledon Championship in 2020 due to concerns about the impact of the new coronavirus epidemic on public health. The 134th championship will be postponed to June 28, 2021to July 11. Federer only used the word “extremely shocked” when forwarding the news canceled by Wimbledon this year on social media, and this English word also meant “completely destroyed. Federer, who owns 20 Grand Slam trophies, once dominated Wimbledon eight times. When Wimbledon starts next year, he will be close to 40 years old.
On the 2nd, the men’s professional tennis association (ATP), the Women’s Tennis Association (WTA), and the International Tennis Federation (ITF) announced that they were affected by the new Crown pneumonia epidemic, ATP and WTA Tour and all ITF world tennis tour will be suspended until July 13, 202020.
With Wimbledon’s announcement of cancellation in 2020, ATP and WTA’s European lawn season will also be suspended. The ATP events affected include: steerto humbos, Stuttgart, the Queen’s Cup, Harley, Mallorca, Eastbourne. Affected WTA events include: scherto humbos, Nottingham, Birmingham, Berlin, Eastbourne and Bad Homburg. Professional events of all levels of ATP, including ATP Challenge and ITF world tour, will continue to be suspended. At present, the tour plan after July 13, 202020 is carried out according to the original schedule.
“Unfortunately, the global spread of the new Crown epidemic has left us no choice but to prolong the suspension period of the tour, this is a decision made by all our members and relevant tennis management agencies.” ATP chairman Andria gordenz said, “at this time, we are experiencing unprecedented challenges. Ensuring health and safety is still our most the first important task. We will make every effort, resume the tour as soon as possible under the condition of confirming safety.”
According to British media reports, the current annual income of Wimbledon is conservatively estimated to reach 0.2 billion pounds (about 1.76 billion yuan). Since most of the profits of Wimbledon will be transferred to the British Internet Association every year, although the insurance contract means that the British Internet Association should still be able to get an income, however, the cancellation of the lawn season will still hit the already stretched British Internet Association hard.
The cancellation of professional tennis matches is a fatal blow to those who rank outside 100 in the world. Take Wimbledon as an example. As long as you can pass the qualification test or get the qualification by virtue of a foreign card, even if you are out in the first round of singles, you can also take away about 50000 pounds of bonus, this makes some tennis players with low world rankings complain. The world-ranked 300 Georgian female player shabatawa has called people to sign a petition online, hoping that organizations such as the international Internet Federation can give some financial support to low-ranked players. She said that most low-ranking players earn money by teaching balls, participating in club competitions or other bonus events, but the epidemic may make them have no income in a few months, and many people do not have much savings.
Different from the insurance related to Wimbledon, according to the British Daily Telegraph, the other three Grand Slam events have no insurance similar to the cancellation of the event. The French network Association said that once the French network could not be carried out this year, they would lose 0.26 billion euros (about 2.01 billion yuan) of income.
On the side of German football, the German international team boaten, who went out illegally and privately because of his spy’s heart, was fined by the Bayern Munich club on the 1st and donated all to the local hospital. Boateng drove to Leipzig to visit the sick child privately this week and was involved in a traffic accident. Fortunately, the accident did not cause casualties.
In addition, in China, the 2020 Shanghai global equestrian championship, which was scheduled to be held in May, also announced that it would be postponed.