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  • Bangalore gets the boot from ATP for safety reasons

    8/27/08 7:09 AM | Johan Lindahl
    - September's new ATP date in Bangalore, India has been cancelled a month before the start due to a spate of summer extremist bombings which have left up to 50 people dead.

    The ATP confirmed that local organisers raised the alarm for the safety of a tournament shifted to the country's high-tech centre after being played for two years in Mumbai.

    “The ATP board can confirm that it has regrettably accepted a petition from the Bangalore Open to suspend the 2008 event due to the local promoter's security concerns”, an ATP statement read. The $400,000 in prize money will be paid into the player pension fund instead.

    Violence has rarely stopped tournament play, with the exception of Israel. An ATP event in Bangkok was played without problems two years ago after a peaceful coup in the country which left tanksand soliders on the streets of the capital.

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I had NO IDEA that there was a tennis players' pension fund. :O Wow!

cherylmurray , 8/27/08 3:10 PM



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