2022 WTA Finals set to be held in Texas after suspension of events in China

| by Evita Mueller

According to tennis journalist Jon Wertheim, the 2022 WTA Finals are set to be played in the Dickies Arena in Fort Worth, Texas.

After the WTA Finals were held in Singapore from 2014 until 2018, it moved to Shenzhen in 2019. In 2020, the event was cancelled due to COVID-19 and it was set to return to Shenzhen again in 2021. However, that didn't happen.

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In December 2021, all WTA events in China were suspended because of concerns over the treatment of Chinese government of former singles world number 14 and doubles no. 1, Shuai Peng. Therefore, the 2021 WTA Finals were held in Guadalajara in Mexico.

The event was played in a small Panamerican Tennis Center that can welcome only around 6 600 visitors. As the WTA Finals were set to be held in Shenzhen until 2030 the WTA had to come with a new place where the year-end tournament will be held.

In 2022, ti should be the Dickies Arena in Fort Worth, Texas in the United States. More than 12 000 people can attend events in this arena and so it can be the biggest venue of the WTA Finals since 2013 when the tournament was held in Sinan Erdem Dome in Istanbul.

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