Flashback to 2000 WTA Championships
Laurie’s Tennis Articles will take a look at some of the classic WTA championships in recent times, which culminated in either a memorable final or memorable matches throughout the event. This week we take a look at the 2000 championships. In November 2000, the event called the Chase championships would be held at Madison Square Garden in New York for the very last time after a successful period of almost 30 years. There was controversy over the new venue chosen for 2001 and 2002 in Munich Germany as Monica Seles publicly stated that she would never play in Germany again after the infamous stabbing incident in Hamburg in 1993 and perceived lack of justice in the German courts where her attacker was not given a prison sentence. The tournament set up was vastly different back in 2000. The top 16 in the world qualified for the year end tournament which was pure knock out from first round to the final. With the format change since, this seems a b...