One of Asia’s top women’s tennis tournament, the WTA Pan Pacific Open in Japan, has been called off first time due to Coronavirus pandemic, organizers said Tuesday.
The cancellation of the event, which was scheduled for November, follows last week’s axing of all international tennis tournaments in China for 2020.
The Pan Pacific’s demise ends a continuous run for the tournament since 1984 and leaves Asia with only one Women’s Tennis Association event, October’s Korea Open, on this year’s coronavirus-wrecked schedule.
It is also another scrapping for sport in Japan after the Tokyo Olympics, originally due to start last week, were postponed for a year over COVID-19.