The international tournament held every year in Fukuoka Prefecture, where top wheelchair tennis players such as Shingo Kunieda and Yui Kamiji were scheduled to participate, has continued from last year due to the spread of the new coronavirus infection. Will also be canceled.
It was decided to cancel the international wheelchair tennis tournament "Japan Open".
The tournament is held every year in Iizuka City, Fukuoka Prefecture, and this year starts on April 20, including Kunieda, who is ranked first in the world ranking for men, and Uechi, who is ranked second in the world for women. Top players were scheduled to participate.
However, the organizers of the tournament are more than 100 participants and a total of 2000 volunteers, given the ongoing spread of the new coronavirus and the state of emergency declared in Fukuoka Prefecture. On the 15th, he announced the cancellation of this year's tournament following last year, saying that he could not ensure safety.
Regarding the holding of the wheelchair tennis tournament, one of the four major tournaments, the Australian Open, will be held from the 14th of next month in Melbourne, Australia, along with the tournament for healthy people, after taking strict infection control measures. Tennis-only tournaments have been canceled or postponed one after another in Japan and overseas due to the inability to take sufficient measures against infection.