No, all pros. The rest of the team staff was though

I should find a way to watch WTA tennis, this is the sort of thing I’d like to support with my viewership

why so ignorant?

https://reddit.com/r/sports/comments/103ajcx/_/j306xte/?context=1

They're employees with vacations. Obviously they wouldn't and couldn't during an important schedule of matches

Hah. I kinda just took a shot in the dark. Ah well, good for him!

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WTA is run by Steve Simon

Mommy to the rescue! Poor Claudio will never live this down

No I didn’t.

I am no China expert, but my gut is that she is being re-educated along with her family members. It is unlikely that she will ever be allowed to travel outside of China.

So this is how things work when international sporting federations are run by women!

Number of players total does not prove anything? You are talking about the country which currently boasts the largest population, of course they are going to have a large presence in almost everything they do, welcome to statistics?

Again, if is sooooo popular, how come you can't even fill the WTA final of 10k people, hosted in one of the largest cities in the world by population? Surely you can find 10k people out of the "14m tennis enjoyers" to fill a stadium? Not counting the seats that's already filled by foreign fans?

They likely will not but I’d love to be proven wrong. They haven’t held any tournaments in China since her disappearance but that’s because of zero-covid

Edit: yeah I just checked all the China tournaments are on schedule for 2023

>no billionaires = things are much more expensive and less jobs.

Yeah... the last 50+ years of american politics have proven that you just made that shit up lmao

Technically you did say Gio is the best in the pool, so the responder saying talent =/= best in a team sport could be a proper argument to that point - that's only if the minor assumptions made there (namely by best you mean most talented) are accurate.

Anyway, just figured I'd hopefully help clarify where everyone was coming from. Cheers

The participation numbers for tennis in China has grown so rapidly that the country now boasts more tennis players than any other country in the world

Nearly a quarter of all tennis players in the world are from China. This figure comprises all those players that have played the sport at least once in the past year. That’s according to a new survey just published by the International Tennis Federation (ITF)

https://tennishead.net/new-report-highlights-astounding-popularity-of-tennis-in-china/

http://itf.uberflip.com/i/1169625-itf-global-tennis-report-2019-overview/0?

If that's how china operates then fuck em. FUCK THEM

What are you even trying to say?

With parents like that, it's no wonder why Gio acted incredibly selfish and entitled. Are you surprised? I'm not.

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a decade is probably strong enough of a message for everyone before they do anything to a WTA player

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They've been giant killers, we'll see I guess.

Go Canada Go!!

Thank you sir, an entertaining game as always. GL in the next one :)

Your Wikipedia page also mentions that it needs additional verification for support, from 2010 no less.

It also mentions a measly 14m people plays the sport with 30,000 courts, in a country with 1.4 billion people and city that can host entire country populations. Many of these courts are spread in rural areas that can barely even be considered courts. Also considering some of the so called courts are just roughly re netted badminton courts, this is a joke.

It also mentions that one of the major tournaments was held in a stadium in Beijing that host a laughable 10k. Sorry but my middle school stadium holds close to that much, and the stadium wasn't even filled for the final. In a city of 30m you cant even fill a 10k stadium, This is your popular sport lmfao. You really want to read your sources before you provided as "proof".