WTA Tour Overhaul Plans
Lots of players have been saying they want this - like Maria Sharapova - and it looks liek the changes are coming within the next few years. It sounds liek this new round-robin format is near the top of the list on changes to make assuming the testing of it goes well across all of tennis. I really don’t like it so much, but I’ll give it a shot.
A major overhaul of women’s tennis will be completed by 2009, the WTA Tour said on Tuesday.
A final decision on a new tournament schedule aimed at shortening the season and getting the top players facing each other more regularly should be agreed by March 2007.
The announcement follows a decision taken by the Tour Board at the recent Championships in Madrid to launch a tournament selection process as part of its Roadmap 2010. Guardian