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The WTA launched a provisional 2021 girls’s tennis schedule by way of the top of Wimbledon in July, largely sticking to a conventional calendar, together with the Miami Open in March.
The lineup launched Tuesday tacks on 20 weeks to the tour’s preliminary announcement protecting the yr’s first seven weeks, together with the Abu Dhabi WTA Women’s Tennis Open that begins main-draw play Wednesday.
The Billie Jean King Cup finals and playoff sequence will begin on April 12, the French Open on May 23, and Wimbledon — which was canceled final yr for the primary time since 1945 due to the coronavirus pandemic — on June 28.
After the Australian Open, which is slated for Feb. 8-21, there can be a WTA 500 occasion in Australia, adopted by 500- or 1000-level occasions beginning in Doha on March 1; Dubai on March 8; St. Petersburg, Russia, on March 15; Miami on March 22; Charleston, South Carolina, on April 5; Stuttgart, Germany, on April 19; Madrid on April 26; Rome on May 10; Berlin on June 14; and Eastbourne, England, on June 21.
The largest occasion lacking from the schedule is the joint WTA-ATP hard-court match in Indian Wells, California, which already had stated will probably be relinquishing its standard March dates due to the pandemic. The COVID-19 outbreak brought on that occasion to be canceled in 2020.
