In October St. Petersburg will host Russia’s first tennis tournament of the Association of tennis professionals (ATP) having a category 500,— St. Petersburg Open. This follows from a new calendar for the remainder of 2020, which is ATP produced in the context of pandemic coronavirus. Also decided the date and venue of the Moscow tournament “VTB Kremlin Cup”. It will be held immediately after the St. Petersburg race in track and field athletics football complex CSKA.Men’s professional tournaments are held in Russia, exactly three decades since in 1990 in Moscow was held for the first time the Kremlin Cup. However, both he and St Petersburg. Petersburg Open, which was born four years later, still always had the same low gradation of ATP category. It is now called category 250, and on the prestige of the inferior categories 500 and Masters 1000. By the way, the numbers in the names of the categories of tournaments are not random. They correspond to the number of rating points earned by winners.Expected status change of at least one of the Russian in ATP tournaments this year. But intervened coronavirus. The pandemic is not simply deleted from the tournament calendar for nearly six months — from early March to the second half of August. She left the ATP Tour without fall of the Sino-Japanese series, and without a major European tournaments in Madrid and Basel. Moreover, due to the difficult economic situation, the ATP has allowed the organizers of all tournaments approximately two times to cut prize money. It helped to go on raising the St. Petersburg Open, title sponsor of which is “Gazprom Export”. According to “Kommersant”, the tournament organizers decided not to use the option of reducing any prize money and save it in the amount of approximately $1 million In turn, the ATP moved the start St. Petersburg Open c Sep on October 12 and assigned him category 500. However, while a period of only one year, because long-term data no license is available, and the cost is $20-30 million Increase of tournament status will allow the organizers of the St. Petersburg Open, count on a relatively strong structure of participants and the arrival of two, maybe three players in the top ten. However, according to a member of the tournament Directorate Vladimir Kamelzon, in a pandemic to speak about it while early. But Mr. Kamaleson confirmed that have reached an agreement concerning the rental of “SIBUR Arena”. The fact that this home gym basketball “Zenith”, and the season of the VTB United League kicks off on September 20.In turn, men’s Kremlin Cup is scheduled immediately after St. Petersburg Open, that is begin on October 19. And that, in the opinion of the President of the Russian tennis Federation and Chairman of the Board of Directors of tournament Shamil Tarpischev will increase the level of the Kremlin Cup. Clearly, many players will be able to come to Moscow��directly from St. Petersburg. And in the current environment, when almost all the issues of logistics are a problem, it is of great importance. In addition, Mr. Tarpischev confirmed “Kommersant” that in this year’s Kremlin Cup will be held in the athletic football complex CSKA. There, he will move from the ice Palace “Krylatskoe”, where is still deployed hospital for the treatment of patients with coronavirus.In total, in the tournament ATP schedule currently includes 13 competitions (see reference). From North America, where there will be only two of them, a male tour will move to Europe, where it is planned to hold four tournaments on clay and seven in the halls. To finish the season in London the final competition Nitto ATP Finals involving the eight strongest players in the world. “The ATP has had to rebuild on the fly, since the tournament in Madrid was cancelled recently,— said a member of the Board of Directors of the International tennis Federation (ITF) Alexei Selivanenko.— From the point of view of geography, the calendar is built logically enough, although it is possible that this is not the final version. After all, the situation with coronavirus in the world is changing very quickly and not always for the better”.Eugene Федяков22 August — Cincinnati (Masters 1000 category), the tournament is held in new Йорке31 Aug — the US Open in new Йорке8 Sep — kitzbühel (250)14 September — Rome (Masters 1000)November 21 — Hamburg (500)September 27 — Roland Garros Париже12 in October — St. Petersburg (500)Oct 19 — Antwerp (250), Moscow (250)October 26 — Vienna (500)November 2 — Paris (Masters 1000)November 9 — Sofia (250)15 November ATP Finals in London
