Saudi Arabia is going to sponsor the WTA women's tennis rankings under a new partnership
Release time：2024-05-21 08:13:55 Source：Worldly Web news portal
NEW YORK (AP) — Saudi Arabia’s move into tennis will now include a multiyear deal to sponsor the WTA women’s rankings.
The WTA released word of its partnership agreement with Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF) on Monday, a move that follows last month’s news that the kingdom will host the tour’s season-ending championships in Riyadh starting this year and February’s announcement that it will sponsor the ATP men’s rankings.
Both tours’ rankings deals are for five years.
The PIF is the first naming-rights partner for the WTA rankings and the new arrangement also includes plans to promote tennis at lower levels of the sport.
Tennis has been consumed lately by the debate over whether the sport should follow golf and others in making deals with Saudi Arabia, where rights groups say women continue to face discrimination in most aspects of family life and homosexuality is a major taboo, as it is in much of the rest of the Middle East.
- Previous：Investigators return to Long Island home of Gilgo Beach serial killing suspect
- Next：Georgia Republicans choose Amy Kremer, organizer of pro
Related articles
- Storms damage homes in Oklahoma and Kansas. But in Houston, most power is restored
- Shopping complex fire inflicts tragedy on Vietnamese community in Poland
- Bride and groom BLASTED for giving their wedding guests 'unreasonable' list of 15 rules to follow
- Oakland Ballers make request to purchase old Coliseum bleacher seats used by NFL's Raiders
- Four people killed in a house explosion in southwestern Missouri
- Blinken's Kyiv song choice raises eyebrows as Ukraine fights fierce Russian attacks
- Marston Hefner brands Crystal Hefner a 'master manipulator' in damning attack on his father's widow
- New US tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles, batteries and solar cells could raise consumer prices
- Georgia Republicans choose Amy Kremer, organizer of pro
- Milan wins chaotic sprint at end of 11th stage of Giro. Pogacar stays in pink
- Elon Musk gets approval from FDA to implant his Neuralink brain chip into a second patient
- Scientists discover ancient HERPES in 50,000
- Rory McIlroy wore his wedding ring on Sunday when he won the Wells Fargo Championship
- Julia Fox makes VERY risque joke about her two
- Kate Hudson hits the stage to debut songs from her new album Glorious at star
- United Methodists scrap their anti
- Nicola Coughlan looks stylish in a black co
- Billionaire Frank McCourt says he's putting together a consortium to buy TikTok
- Minnesota Uber and Lyft driver pay package beats deadline to win approval in Legislature
- Oakland Ballers make request to purchase old Coliseum bleacher seats used by NFL's Raiders
Random recommendation
- Copyright © 2024 Powered by Saudi Arabia is going to sponsor the WTA women's tennis rankings under a new partnership ,Worldly Web news portal sitemap