Saudi Arabia is going to sponsor the WTA women's tennis rankings under a new partnership
Time:2024-05-21 13:40:48 Source:sportViews(143)
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:I was 'brokefished' by my friend for £400
Next:Biden says Brown v. Board of Education ruling was about more than education
You may also like
- Cruise worker 'murders newborn son on board ship': Shocked co
- Xi, DR Congo President Exchange Congratulations on 50th Anniversary of Normalization of China
- Xi Holds Talks with Mongolian President
- CPC Leadership Analyzes Economic Work for Next Year, Makes Arrangements for Anti
- The unstoppable duo of Emma Stone and Yorgos Lanthimos
- China, Indonesia Agree on Building China
- Xi and Other Comrades Visit Jiang in Hospital or Send Condolences After His Passing
- Guidelines aim to reduce rate of childhood myopia
- Red Lobster seeks bankruptcy protection after closing some restaurants