Next week’s tourney moves from Canberra to Bendigo due to heavy smoke
Kangaroos graze in a field as smoke shrouds the Australian capital of Canberra, Australia, on Jan. 1, 2020. Organizers have decided to move next week's Canberra Tennis International to the city of Bendigo.A professional tennis tournament scheduled to take place in Canberra next week has been moved to the city of Bendigo because of the likelihood of disruption caused by smoke from the bushfires raging around southeast Australia.
Hazardous smoke from the fires forced the abandonment of a Big Bash Twenty20 cricket match in the nation’s capital on Dec. 21 and organizers, anticipating similar disruption, have decided to move the Canberra Tennis International.“The health of players, fans, volunteers, staff and stakeholders is our biggest priority at all times,” Tennis ACT chief executive Kim Kachel said in a statement.
The tournament, which is a stop on both the men’s ATP Challenger tour and the women’s ITF Futures tour, will form part of the preparations for lowly ranked players competing at the Australian Open, which takes place in Melbourne from Jan. 20. There looked to be little chance of disruption from the bushfires in Sydney on Friday with no sign of the thick layer of smoke that has shrouded the city on several occasions over the last few months.
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