法国网球联合会将拨款900万欧元支持职业巡回赛

法国网球联合会将拨款900万欧元支持职业巡回赛

The French tennis federation will launch nine million euros (about 9.8 million U.S. dollars) to support professional circuit who financially struggle amid the coronavirus pandemic, Trend reports citing Xinhua.

据新华社报道，法国网球联合会将投入900万欧元(约合980万美元)资助在新冠肺炎疫情中陷入经济困境的职业巡回赛。

The money will be intended for the professional circuit in favor of International tournaments on ATP, WTA, Tennis Europe and ITF circuits (juniors, professionals, seniors, beach tennis and wheelchair tennis) organized in France, which had to postpone or cancel their competition due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

这笔资金将用于支持在法国举办的ATP、WTA、网球欧洲巡回赛和ITF巡回赛(青少年、专业人士、老年人、沙滩网球和轮椅网球)的国际巡回赛，这些赛事由于2019冠状病毒病大流行而不得不推迟或取消。

Officials of the FFT, referees and referees of international and national tournaments whose main activity is refereeing. Tennis players from the professional circuit (excluding the world's top 100) and associated disciplines (padel, beach tennis and wheelchair tennis).

FFT的官员，国际和国家比赛的裁判员和裁判员，主要活动是裁判。来自职业巡回赛(不包括世界前100名)和相关学科(padel，沙滩网球和轮椅网球)的网球运动员。

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The money will come from a larger 35 million euros (about 38.1 million U.S. dollars) support plan for French tennis as a whole.

这笔资金将来自一项3500万欧元(约合3810万美元)的法国网球整体支持计划。

"The FFT wishes, through this system, to provide support to all French players in tennis and related disciplines affected by this unprecedented crisis. Thanks to the establishment of this fund, we hope to be able to help them overcome this challenging period," said Bernard Giudicelli, President of the French Tennis Federation.

“FFT希望通过这个系统，为所有在这场前所未有的危机中受到影响的网球和相关学科的法国球员提供支持。由于该基金的建立，我们希望能够帮助他们度过这一具有挑战性的时期。”法国网球联合会主席Bernard Giudicelli说。

The support plan will be implemented from June 3, 2020, and will run until August 31, 2021.

该支持计划将于2020年6月3日开始实施，并将持续到2021年8月31日。