"We will no longer organize a WTA event" said Luxembourg Open director in statement minutes after final concludes

The WTA Luxembourg Open is no more according to the tournament director who announced the shocking news to the world after yesterday's final.

One of the longest-standing women's indoor tennis events is not going to be organized anymore as the event announces disagreement with the WTA. Minutes after yesterday's final between Tauson and Ostapenko finished the event put out a statement on social media announcing the event held would be the final one. The statement accused the WTA of imposing rules preventing the organizers from running the event how they wanted to.

Tournament director Danielle Maas explained the decision in an interview with the newspaper Tageblatt:

"We will no longer organize a WTA tournament. That’s a big change. But we no longer feel comfortable working with the WTA. The quality of the tournament as we imagine it, the family aspect and everything around it is no longer given. That’s why we made the decision to quit WTA after 25 years. We are happy to close this chapter, which gave us no more joy."

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Maas also confirmed that orgnaizing this week's event was a struggle explaining:

"It took a lot of nerve to organize this week the way the WTA wanted. Working together was very difficult. The rules of the WTA and their approach have changed a lot since 2019. The WTA chapter now closes. For us, however, it does not close with one laughing and one crying eye, but only with one laughing eye. We’ll close this door, but we’ll open a new one next year.”