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In any case, the ATP and WTA series will stop until at least July 13, if the tournament in Tyrolean Gamsstadt can be played according to the July 27 schedule will be decided in the coming weeks. The men’s player organization ATP has at least announced that it will release details about the near future on May 15. “By then, the ATP will surely have done its homework and tell us what would be possible. We definitely want to organize the tournament,” Antonitsch said in an interview with the APA on Sunday.
Even if you have to wait for the ATP decision and forecasts have become practically impossible these days, you have a plan B in Kitzbühel. For Antonitsch there are several options. “One is that we can play in late July, which would be possible in tennis. The question then is: without a spectator? How do the players enter (to Austria, note)? Maybe there is a possibility of limited audience numbers? What does ATP allow, what does our government allow? ”Carinthian, 54, explained.
Preparatory tournament for the French Open?
It is also possible to postpone the appointment for up to six weeks. “There are various plans in the room. We once said that we could play until mid-September, ”said Antonitsch. In this way, Kitzbühel could even become a preparatory tournament for the French Open this year, because the clay court Grand Slam tournament in Paris was postponed from late May / early June to the period from September 20 to 4th of October.
In addition to the development of case numbers in the Covid 19 pandemic, freedom of travel is also a major problem. However, if everything unfolds as expected in the coming months, then a particularly strong field could come to Kitzbühel, where the organizers really had great competition before the 2020 crisis due to the now canceled Olympics in Tokyo. In view of the CoV crisis, don’t think about it at all, says Antonitsch. “Everyone has to deal with it, regardless of the industry. Certainly there are bigger problems, each organizer has his own problems, each sport has his own. I think the last concern now is our field of players. “
Antonitsch needs almost 400 people to organize the ATP-250 tournament, but it would be less without spectators. Now it is calculated what would be possible within the rules of the federal government.
