File: Japan Open organisers said on their website it would be the first time the tournament had been cancelled since 1972.TOKYO - The Japan Open tennis tournament, won last year by world number one Novak Djokovic, has been cancelled due to fears of a second coronavirus wave, organisers said on Thursday.
According to a revised schedule published by the ATP to take account of coronavirus, tournaments were also due to take place in the Chinese cities of Chengdu, Zhuhai, Beijing and Shanghai.Japan Open organisers said on their website it would be the first time the tournament had been cancelled since 1972.
"Given concerns about a second wave of the infection both in Japan and overseas, we came to the anguished conclusion that we had to cancel," they said.There was no indication that a WTA event scheduled for November had yet been cancelled.
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