Novak and the rest of the top 10 are cashing in at Dubai
Year after year now, many of the best players go to Dubai to contest two very big money tournaments. And, year after year, the United Arab Emirates fails to produce any players of note. While I am a big proponent of spreading the gospel of tennis and am willing to keep and open mind upon placing tournaments in various international locales, as it stands to day, I am failing to see the value of continuing to have tournaments in Dubai beyond the massive amounts of moneys paid to the players, and concurrently, the cuts that the tours get off the tournament fees. I do understand that the Dubai Duty Free is a big sponsor off the WTA and it would not be if not for the existence of a Premier level tournament there, but is there going to be any point in the next decade when enough fans actually attend the tournament to say, fill half the seats?
I did not see that last week during Aga Radwanska
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