Italian Open tennis in Rome pushed forward to September 14 start
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Tiziana FABI
Agence-France Presse 14 Aug 2020, 3:27 am
The Italian Open tennis tournament will be played a week earlier than
scheduled in Rome with the main draw from September 14-21, organisers
confirmed on Thursday.
This year's edition of the clay-court tournament had been scheduled to start
at the Foro Italico on May 11, but was called off because of the coronavirus
pandemic.
The cancellation of the rescheduled Madrid Open, because of a fresh outbreak
of coronavirus, has allowed the Italian tournament to take place a week
earlier than anticipated.
重新调整赛程的马德里因新爆发的肺炎疫情取消，让意大利赛事可以提早一星期。
It will now be played after the US Open from August 31 to September 13, and
before the French Open, which begins on September 27.
"In the next few days it will be decided whether the men's qualification draw
will be expanded to 64 players and in this case the matches will start on
September 11," the Italian Tennis Federation (FIT) said.
意大利网协还在考虑是否将男子会外改成 64 签，如果要改，9/11 就要开打会外。
"Otherwise it will start on Saturday 12." 不然就是 9/12 开打。
US Open semi-finalists will have a first-round bye to the tournament and will
not play before September 16th at the earliest.
美网四强选手将可获得第一轮 BYE，第一场比赛不早于 9/16。
Tennis returned after a five-month break at the WTA Palermo event in Italy
last week.
于此同时 ATP 有提供了接下来的赛程表：
22/08: ATP Masters 1000 W&S (New York)
31/08: US Open
07/09: ATP 250 Kitzbuhel
14/09: ATP Masters 1000 Rome
21/09: ATP 500 Hamburg
27/09: Roland Garros
12/10: ATP 500 Saint Petersburg
19/10: ATP 250 Antwerp, ATP 250 Moscow
26/10: ATP 500 Vienna
02/11: ATP Masters 1000 Paris
09/11: ATP 250 Sofia
15/11: ATP Finals (London)
莫斯科会在 19/10 举办所以可以猜到 WTA Premier 应该也是同周。
汉堡将继 2008 年后，再次成为法网前红土准备赛事 (罗马-汉堡)。
圣彼得堡今年限定升级 ATP 500。