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WTA Tour broadcast coverage has returned to the Middle East and North Africa following a near three-year blackout with DAZN committing to free streaming until the end of the 2024 season, SportBusiness…
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Industry Moves

Tennis media rights executive John Learing is leaving DAZN after close to a decade heading up the WTA Media joint venture.
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Sky Italia will broadcast the US Open this year and next as part of a two-way sublicensing agreement with SuperTennis amid the sharp rise in success of Italian players
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Industry Moves

Portia Archer, a senior US sports and media executive, has today (Wednesday) been named as the new chief executive of the Women’s Tennis Association.
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Sponsorship & Marketing

Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF) has struck a multi-year deal with the Women's Tennis Association that mirrors its agreement with the men's Tour: sponsorship but no equity investment.
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Rights sales processes are being issued in Mena for WTA Tour and Fiba basketball, SportBusiness understands, as DAZN’s Broadcast Partnerships arm seeks to maximise the impact of major events in the region and end the Tour blackout.
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Women's tennis' WTA Tour is back on screens in China for the first time in two years after streaming service Youku acquired the rights in a three-year deal.
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Play Sports, the sports broadcaster operated by Belgian telco Telenet, has retained rights to men's tennis ATP tour and the women's WTA Tour for three more seasons.
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European pay-television giant Sky has signed off an extensive rights deal covering the men's ATP and women's WTA Tours across its active markets of the UK, Ireland, Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Italy
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Exclusive rights to women's tennis' WTA Tour have been acquired in the Czech Republic and Slovakia by the Canal Plus Group for the new cycle
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Governance

The Women’s Tennis Association (WTA) has confirmed its return to China for the first time since 2019 due to a combination of the Covid-19 pandemic and the Peng Shuai scandal.
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Events

The Women’s Tennis Association (WTA) is moving the location of its San Jose tournament to Washington DC to operate as a combined event from 2023.
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Events

The Women's Tennis Association has released a calendar for the 2023 season up to August featuring several new and returning tournaments. No events have been detailed yet in China
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Indian pay-television broadcaster Sony Pictures Network acquired the rights for this year's Chennai Open WTA Tour 250 tennis tournament
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ATP chairman Andrea Gaudenzi has hailed a decision by the ATP Board to vote through a series of reforms to the men’s tennis tour and its media rights arm ATP Media, arguing that it represents a major s…
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Finance & Law

The ATP and WTA men’s and women’s tennis tours have agreed to sanction IMG’s acquisition of the Mutua Madrid Open ATP 1000 tennis tournament on the condition that it divests its ownership of the Rio O…
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Sponsorship & Marketing

Workplace mental health platform Modern Health has joined the Women’s Tennis Association’s sponsorship portfolio as the organisation’s official mental health partner. A
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Pay-television broadcaster Ziggo Sport has acquired rights in the Netherlands to events organised by the Women’s Tennis Association.