Sentence examples for mandatory tournaments from inspiring English sources

The W.T.A. has its primary Asian office in Beijing, as well as one of its four highest-level mandatory tournaments.

"We've been talking about this forever, and now we get slapped with mandatory tournaments," the 2003 US Open champion said.

Top players, if fit, are obliged to play in 13 mandatory tournaments each year, nine of which are on hard surfaces.

This aspect can, in fact, be attributed to the Williams sisters, who refuse to play at Indian Wells, Calif., one of the mandatory tournaments.

In 2012, they had combined to win all four Grand Slam championships, all four WTA premier mandatory tournaments, and all three Olympic medals in women's singles, but this was the first time they had all reached the semifinals of the same tournament.

Murray, who will be back on court next week at the Thailand Open in Bangkok, has criticised the number of mandatory tournaments the players must compete in.

A victory in a so-called Premier Mandatory tournament is worth 1,000.

This week at the China Open in Beijing, a W.T.A. Premier Mandatory tournament, the three most recent first-time Slam champions (all women) combined to win only one match.

Fifa say that the mass procedure was necessary because some of the Costa Rica players had been unavailable for the mandatory pre-tournament tests.

The Association of Tennis Professionals ATPP) allows any player who has clocked up more than 600 matches in his professional career to skip one of the year's eight mandatory Masters 1000 tournaments, which include the Madrid Open.

Immediately after his defeat by Djokovic, Murray said he may not return to the tour until March at his next two mandatory events, the Masters 1000 tournaments in Indian Wells and Miami.