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Haha. Except 1000 players are going to withdraw coz they don't want to travel halfway across the world right after us open.

Answer my pm! Miss you

 

Personal notice for you - America is not the center of the world.

 

Um I never said it was. I said it doesn't make sense for players to spend 20 hours on the plane when the jetlag will be worse as you travel to Asia (versus flying to the states). Either way this ever should be held like in LA or Hawaii - or maybe Lindsay's hometown laguna beach/Newport beach?

 

Big potential market.

Bad scheduling.

 

It played 4 weeks after the US Open and all TOP players first goto Japan. Some plays Japan-China and again Japan, so they don't just travel all the way for one tournament. Some plays this week in China and the next week in Korea.

 

:lol: Exactly.

 

Let's see.. would we rather have a tournament here:

or at:

I think the choice is obvious

 

I think the choice is obvious

Indeed, definitely here:

 

 

Jetlag? Are you serious? :lol:

Its played 3 weeks after the Open. Its not like they dont have enough time to prepare.


ETA : US already has Miami and Indian Wells. It wouldnt make sense to have a 3rd.

 

Its called Money and more exposure of the game to Asia

 

Tennis in LA is an epic fail. Few crowds, little interest.
WTA are building a presence in Asia, thus it's fitting to have a mandatory tournament here
The Asian HQ is in Beijing
The Chinese crowd would probably be more present, with better ticket sales than LA
It's a good way to raise awareness of tennis in Asia, more specifically China, rather than trying to revive it in a city which doesn't give half a damn about tennis, especially women's tennis.
It's a new venture. If it bombs, then they'll learn from their mistake, but it could be a success.

 

Bashing Beijing's air quality and then suggesting LA as an alternative :spit:

I've been to both and I can't tell much of a difference. :shrug:

 

Cause beijing is one of the worlds greatest cities - obviously u have never been there
Also ppl outside of america like 2 go to big tournaments and see the big names not just the journeywomen

 

Now is China time

 

Beijing is an excellent choice for a 'Mandatory'. And the four weeks after the US Open is actual one of the best constructed parts of the schedule.
If you don't want to travel directly after the US Open, there's Quebec City. If you want to go home to Far West Asia (Europe), and skip Far East Asia, there's Tashkent. If you're going to Far East Asia, the schedule is amazingly sane. Right after the US Open, two weeks of Intl 0.2s. ($220,000) Those are the equivalent of Tier IVs. Then a Premier 2.0, (basically a Rome) and then a Premier 4.5 (=Miami). Followed by Osaka, becasue for some wierd reason the WTA always schedules an event in the area AFTER an imortant tournament.

09-14-09 Intl 0.2 _____ Guangzhou
09-21-09 Intl 0.2 _____ Seoul
09-27-09 Premier 2.0 __ TPP
10-03-09 Premier 4.5 __ Beijing

10-12-09 Intl 0.2 _____ Osaka

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It's a part of the schedule that actually makes sense. It's too bad OZ isn't in Novemebr, not January, but they tried moving it in the 80's, and it didn't work out.

 

Anyway, mandatory is only mandatory for top ten, and even they have options to skip one.

 

wrong
thats P5 like Tokyo is
Beijing counts just like all slams do on your rank whatever.

 

maybe it is fog or something else,have you been to Beijing before? I admit that there are now more seriously polluted in many place of China, but Beijing has been pretty good all these years.

 

Barboza again

 

Well it's the second fastest growing sport after basketball and 5 million people currently play tennis which is a small fraction of the 1.3 billion people living there.

The fact that the Chinese government already invested a lot in Chinese tennis facilities, means more people playing the sport, probably going to be a good numbered crowd interested in going to watch tennis. The Shanghai Masters and Zheng Jie also added to the tennis buzz.

Oh and a lot of people play tennis, they just don't tend to watch it in LA.

 

China Open is not RIGHT after US Open - there are weeks in between!!! Plus being able to handle jetlag is part of being a professional jet-setter. Beyonce was in Melbourne doing a full concert the day after the MTV Music awards. Athletes are pretty accumstomed to it too.

Moreover, people fly close to 20 hours or more all the time, not just professional athletes. Some athletes even fly double the amount in a week so they can see family back home and then off to another tournament. It really shouldn't be an issue!

 

China is so disgusting. So polluted.

 

hELP THEM? NO?

 

Money money money money. MONEY!

 

So the guy from LA is complaining about smog?

 

barboza and his/her china hate threads again
i'm not from china and i'm irritated.

 

Asia is the biggest market for the tour right now, they have an office in Beijing, don't forget about that.

 

Toray Pan Pacific Open has more history in tennis than the China Open. Why didn't they do it in Japan instead? :shrug:

 

China paid more. is it hard to believe? :shrug:

 

So that Lena can win a whole lotta moolah when she wins there again this year. Since she didn't win nothing but a medal last year this year they've decided she needs a tacky gold trophy and huge amount of money to make up for forgetting to pay her last year.