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  • AFP

    Women's tennis signs 'multi-year partnership' with Saudi investment fund

    The women's tennis tour (WTA) on Monday announced "a multi-year partnership" with the Saudi Arabian sovereign wealth fund (PIF), emulating a deal made by the men's tour (ATP) in February.The partnership between the WTA and PIF follows the recent announcement that the season-ending WTA Finals, featuring the eight top singles players and doubles pairings, will be held  in Riyadh for the next three years, starting this year.

  • BBC

    Murray on brink of defeat before weather intervenes

    Andy Murray is two games away from a first-round defeat by Yannick Hanfmann at the Geneva Open with play suspended because of bad weather.

  • Associated Press

    With Djokovic awaiting the winner, Murray trails Hanfmann at rain-hit Geneva Open

    Needing a win to face Novak Djokovic next at the Geneva Open, Andy Murray was saved by a heavy rainstorm when he trailed unseeded Yannick Hanfmann 7-5, 4-1 in a first-round match on Monday. Murray and top-ranked Djokovic both got wild cards to enter the last clay-court event to prepare for the French Open, and were drawn to meet in the second round. Ranked No. 75, Murray began to struggle in his first tour match in two months when heavy rain and strong winds swept across the stadium court in a lakeside park.

  • Associated Press

    Saudi Arabia is going to sponsor the WTA women's tennis rankings under a new partnership

    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. 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.