The WTA Finals will be held in Riyadh for the next three years.
In April it was confirmed the WTA’s showpiece season finale, featuring the leading eight players in the world, would move to Riyadh for three years.
Given the difficulties the women’s tour, and this event in particular, has experienced over the past few years it is perhaps not surprising that the move has been broadly welcomed. The players all cited a desire to help change the sporting culture in Saudi Arabia as justification for the move. “I really do feel like, in order to ignite change, you have to start little by little. That’s how I’ve been taught growing up black in America, knowing our history. Obviously there were a lot of people opposed, against it . Now we’re all equally living together.
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