The Women's Tennis Association (WTA) and Octagon, announced together with state and municipal authorities, which Guadalajara will be the official host of the most important women's women's tournament final, where the eight best players from 10 A will participateNovember 17.

This event that will be held at the AKRON Tennis Stadium will mark the first and only occasion when the city hosts the prestigious competition, since the event will return to its headquarters in Shenzhen, China, from 2022 to 2030.The event will be transmitted in more than 150 countries and will leave an important economic spill in Jalisco.

In the presentation event, Governor Enrique Alfaro Ramírez acknowledged the efforts and work done to get the headquarters of this event that transcends the sports field, since it opens a new stage in the process of economic reactivation when resuming, with all sanitary measuresand preventive against COVID-19, great events and business tourism.

“This initiative, without a doubt, will put Jalisco in the eyes of the world.This also represents the hope that we are starting a new stage in the state, a new stage that after a year and a half of pandemic, allows us to look with optimism to the future, a new stage in which economic reactivation has to focus on theActivities that are so important for the economy of our State, but that, due to health conditions, they have not been able to take the rhythm we would like, ”said the president.

He said that with the model that Jalisco imposed to contain the Coronavirus pandemic, the entity showed that you can go faster to recover the economy, allowing hotel occupancy, hiring various products and services, and the activation of important industries that are relatedWith tourism.

Fabrice Chouquet, co director of the Akron Wtra Finals Guadalajara tournament, said it is historical to be held in the city this tournament, which will bring together the best of women's tennis, bringing great benefits.

“On the part of the WTA, I would likeAkron and all the support of sponsors for doing this possible event.Since 1971 the Wtra Finals has been in 10 different cities and in 23 different final glasses, for the first time it will be held in Mexico, this is a historical moment for Latin America ”.

For his part, Alastair Garland, senior vice president of Octagon, organizing company of the final, stressed that due to the conditions of the headquarters, the WTA tennis tournament final will be the best event that has been held in Mexico about this sport on this sport.

The tournament finals will once again have the best players of the season at the WTA Tour, with exclusive invitations for the eight best individual players and double couples, including the current WTA champion and number 1 of the world Ashleigh Barty, thenumber 2, Aryna Sabalenka and number 7, Barbora Krejcikova in the singles tournament.Krejcikova also qualified for the Double Tournament, along with his partner Katerina Siniakova.The double couple formed by Shuko Aoyama and Ena Shibahara also has their place insured in the competition.In the next few days other classified will be confirmed and announced for the final phase of the year.

This year's tournament headquarters, the AKRON Tennis Stadium, in the Metropolitan Tennis Complex, was specifically built for the WTA finals, and has a capacity of 8.000 spectators.The total assistance to this year's event will be determined in coordination with the Health Table of the Jalisco government, and will adjust to all local guidelines, the WTA and the security mandates in force around the Covid-19 Pandemic.

The event will last eight days, in which two singles and two doubles matches will be played every day, more than 160 countries will be transmitted on television and online through the global media partners of the WTA.

TO KNOW MORE:

• The Women's Tennis Association (WTA) or Women's Tennis Association is the main organization that governs tournaments and the professional female tennis circuit worldwide.In a comparative way, it is to female tennis that the ATP to male tennis.• The Tennis Final in Guadalajara will be seen in more than 150 countries.• The Zapopan Open, organized by a body presided by Gustavo Santoscoy, began its participation in the WTA in 2019 with a 125K category tournament, the fifth on the scale of tennis hierarchies.In 2020, the pandemic did not allow its second edition, but in 2021, after the announcement that the Acapulco Open rose from level to WTA 500, the Jalisco headquarters took its place as WTA 250.