{"id":17298,"date":"2022-02-25T10:50:26","date_gmt":"2022-02-25T05:20:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=196136"},"modified":"2022-02-25T10:50:26","modified_gmt":"2022-02-25T05:20:26","slug":"atp-challenger-tournament-in-moscow-has-been-cancelled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/tennis\/atp-challenger-tournament-in-moscow-has-been-cancelled\/","title":{"rendered":"ATP Challenger Tournament in Moscow has been cancelled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On February 25, 2022, ATP Challenger Tournament Moscow Cup, the Professional Men\u2019s Tennis Tournament, which was set to take place next week in Moscow, has been announced to not take place.<\/p>\n<p>Following the escalated situation between Russia and Ukraine, the council of the ATP Challenger Tour has decided to not proceed with the next week\u2019s tournament in Moscow, Russia.<br \/>\nConcerned over the safety of the players and uncertainty related to travelling to Russia or internationally, the decision has been taking place.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDue to concerns over player safety and uncertainty related to international travel following the recent escalation of events between Russia and Ukraine, next week\u2019s ATP Challenger tournament in Moscow will not take place as scheduled.\u201d -ATP Challenger Tour on Twitter<\/p>\n<p>Moscow Cup which was scheduled to take place from February 28, 2022, to March 06, 2022, with the prize money of $53,120 and has a total of 48 matches including 32 singles and 16 doubles matches, has been suspended due to the ongoing war crisis between Russia and Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>ATP Tour has confirmed its decision through Twitter.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Due to concerns over player safety and uncertainty related to international travel following the recent escalation of events between Russia and Ukraine, next week\u2019s ATP Challenger tournament in Moscow will not take place as scheduled. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/NRBpEzfEc4\">pic.twitter.com\/NRBpEzfEc4<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 ATP Challenger Tour (@ATPChallenger) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ATPChallenger\/status\/1496928472538791945?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 24, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Viewers infants react on Twitter to this announcement by supporting the board\u2019s decision.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The right decision has been made.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 what's the craic? (@whatsthecraic1) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/whatsthecraic1\/status\/1496930161303998469?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 24, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">This is the right decision. Hope all Russia tournaments are cancelled. Not just this one.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 V. Delaney (@Delaney4Tennis) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Delaney4Tennis\/status\/1496949193155518464?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 24, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The recent ATP Challenger Tournament Citta\u2019 Di Forli\u2019 4 which ended on 20th February 2022, was won by Jack Draper for Singles and Victor Vlad Cornea and Fabian Fallert for doubles.<br \/>\nWhile the ongoing ATP Challenger Tournaments Terega Open in Pau, France and Citta\u2019 Di Forli\u2019 5 in Forli, Italy, which started from 21st February 2022 are running as per the schedule and ends on 27th February 2022.<\/p>\n<p>The decision of suspending of Moscow Cup comes soon after the announcement of the cancellation of the UEFA Champions League Final which was set to be hosted in St. Petersburg Stadium, Russia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Next week\u2019s ATP Challenger Tournament Moscow Cup, as scheduled in Moscow, Russia, stands cancelled. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":437,"featured_media":38044,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[476,3142,202],"class_list":["post-17298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-atp","tag-atp-tour-2022","tag-tennis"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/437"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17298\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}