Saudi Arabia is going to sponsor the WTA women's tennis rankings under a new partnership
Release time：2024-05-21 10:59:20 Source：Planet Pages 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：US overdose deaths dropped in 2023, the first time since 2018
- Next：Ben Whishaw lights up the Croisette as he joins his co
Related articles
- Kate Hudson hits the stage to debut songs from her new album Glorious at star
- How major US stock indexes fared Wednesday, 5/1/2024
- UN General Assembly to resume emergency special session on Mideast
- Rwanda marks Int'l Labor Day with emphasis on youth digital skills promotion
- What's next for Iran after death of its president in crash?
- Hamas to send delegation to Egypt for truce talks
- Experts urge stronger support for biodiversity conservation
- Alabama lawmakers approve legislation to ensure President Biden is on the November ballot
- Kevin Pillar gets 1,000th career hit in Angels' win at Texas
- Climate change poses risk to Ghana's health, food security: report
- Biden says Brown v. Board of Education ruling was about more than education
- Russia is violating UN limits on petroleum shipments to North Korea, the White House says
- China's trade with other BRICS members up 11.3 pct in Q1
- A wild orangutan used a medicinal plant to treat a wound, scientists say
- Inquiry slams UK authorities for failures that killed thousands in infected blood scandal
- Pennsylvania nurse who gave patients lethal or possibly lethal insulin doses gets life in prison
- CONCACAF Champions Cup final moved to June 1 to avoid conflict with Mexican elections
- Maple Leafs star Auston Matthews to miss Game 6 of first
- I was 'brokefished' by my friend for £400
- The Kentucky Derby in the words of the winners, from Smith to Espinoza
Random recommendation
- Copyright © 2024 Powered by Saudi Arabia is going to sponsor the WTA women's tennis rankings under a new partnership ,Planet Pages news portal sitemap