Let’s hope the drug cartel don’t ruin the party.

 

It's much more likely they keep the party going, ask Hingis

 

 

No!

 

Interesting indeed

 

If this is true, the playing conditions should be better than Guadalajara was. Cancun is pretty much at sea level.

 

If it’s true, it‘s a good news. Mexico seems to love Tennis.

 

At least there will be a crowd.

 

So is it: Mexico - Asia - back to Mexico?

These WTA dudes are geniuses when it comes to planning their calendar. Do they want to kill these girls?

 

It gives iga another excuse to skip playing for her country though

 

Can we please stop posting these rumors as facts ? Aren't we up to something like the fourth YEC "announcement" thread by now ?

If it's true, it's pretty good news overall. Better than some of the other rumored venues, but I still don't see why the hell they're not going back to Fort Worth if Shenzhen fell through. They could have had time to market it and get established instead of this ridiculous trend of jumping cities every year with last minute announcements.

 

Guadalajara was great so WTA finally realized they might need to host this in a place where fans would show up. The Fort Worth empty stands was a complete and utter disaster, good thing Simon didn't try to run it back to prove a point because that would have been insane.

Can we please stop posting these rumors as facts ? Aren't we up to something like the fourth YEC "announcement" by now ?

If it's true, it's pretty good news overall. Better than some of the other rumored venues, but I still don't see why the hell they're not going back to Fort Worth if Shenzhen fell through. They could have had time to market it and get established instead of this ridiculous trend of jumping cities every year with last minute announcements.

This journalist is Klaudia Jans' husband. Therefore he's better linked to tennis world than just through the job itself.

 

Guadalajara was great so WTA finally realized they might need to host this in a place where fans would show up. The Fort Worth empty stands was a complete and utter disaster, good thing Simon didn't try to run it back to prove a point because that would have been insane.

The crowds were pretty good by late in the week. They could have turned it into a good event with proper effort. Hopefully Cancún can pull the same crowds as other Mexican destinations, but it's more of a tourist destination so I'm a little less optimistic than I would be about other cities there.

 

Uh oh!!!!…


FALL BREAK IN CANCUN, MEXICO!!!!…

Woooohoooo!!!!


🍺🥃🍸🥳…😝

 

Ok if true I like it!

 

It kinda looks like the arena is wearing a hat.

 

It's not China or Saudi Arabia so I take this as a win.

 

VAMOOOOOOOS.

 

Nice. Any word about the prize money?

 

WTA is paying for everything 🤔

 

 

Why are the bidding and talks only happening now lmao. Did they forget about the finals until Ons brought it up?

In any normal sports organization, now they would be at a point where they’d be taking bids for the 2025-2026 finals.

 

Can't we wait a little longer until it's official? Because I still don't believe that when Czechia offered very similar prize money to the Saudi ones, a large fan base, a close location to the BJK Cup final, and permission for Belarusian and Russian women to enter the country, that they didn't get it.

 

It sounds like there are just a number of candidates and options still being discussed and no decision made yet.

It does seem ridiculous to me to basically centre the whole campaign after the USO on China, only to move the WTA Finals back to the American continent. Typical messy WTA. Why can't they decide the WTA Finals first and then build the rest of end of season leading up to it? I thought the whole point of them not having a permanent home the last couple of years was that it was going back to Shenzhen....so if is not/was never going to be there in the first place, why can't/couldn't they find the Finals a new 5 year home like the ATP manage to do?

 

According to this journalist, the WTA still planned to return to Shenzhen as late as June 20th.

 

They don’t want a tournament…they obviously want a party if it’s in Cancun…🥳😛😝

 

@Pacio changing this one to rumor until there is official confirmation

 

So now we have:

• Saudi Arabia - Riyadh
• Czechia - Ostrava/Prague
• Romania - Cluj-Napoca
• USA - Washington D. C.
• Mexico - Cancun

I think they interact with one of the candidates every day and something always comes out so everybody talks about it and think it's suddenly the big favorite.

 

I love Cancun! Hopefully Steve won't be accosted into...

 

Let’s hope the drug cartel don’t ruin the party.

Silly inflammatory comment.

 

It’s a legit concern for the safety of the players. How is that silly or inflammatory? Everyone knows Mexico has major gang-related crime issues.