Andrea Gaudenzi hopes that tennis might happen this year

As we all know that possibility of professional tennis is very less due to coronavirus but Andrea Gaudenzi, ATP Tour chief is not giving up on 2020.

This season of tennis has been suspended in March due to the coronavirus pandemic and so many countries will be in lockdown till July.

French Open was scheduled to start in May but now it has been postponed till September. As of now U.S Open will take place in August. Wimbledon has been cancelled.

So many players are in doubt that if the sports will return in 2020 or not, because players need to travel around the world.

Gaudenzi said, “It would be unwise to call it quits now. It would be unwise to call it quits now.”

He also said, “Obviously, there could be a subset of options, which is playing with closed gates or deciding how to deal with travel restrictions. But we have not made these decisions so far because they are all hypothetical scenarios.”

He added, “We have set a deadline of May 15 for the tournaments in July, post Wimbledon. And June 1 for the tournaments in August.”

He added, “So we are, in principle, dealing it on I would say six to eight weeks in advance in time for making a decision. Longer than that, it would be foolish to make decisions in my opinion.”

The United States Tennis Association (USTA) scheduled U.S. Open to start from 13th September.

Gaudenzi said, “Their announcement might be a little bit later, we don’t know.Once we get to the beginning of June, we will probably know more about the U.S. summer.”

Around Europe, professional soccer league might start and International travel restrictions would make it tough to start the tennis.

Gaudenzi said, “You can have an estimate that it’s going to be fairly difficult and unlikely that all these countries will align to one single policy relating to travel restrictions.”

He further added, “Australia today for example is probably in a completely different phase than the United Kingdom. You look at Sweden, they have taken a completely different approach. So we could play a tournament in Sweden probably today. But can we travel 100 players to Sweden today? No. So that’s the challenge.”