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“Finally, already starting from the semifinals and finals of the International Tennis Championships, a thousand spectators will be able to attend all the sporting competitions that will be held outdoors and that will scrupulously respect the rules provided for spacing, masks, seat reservations : a first, but significant step towards the return, hopefully soon, to normality in sport. I hope that all the necessary actions will be carried out more quickly to make the decision immediately applicable “, he declared following the decision of the CTS.
“We are moved” the reaction by Angelo Binaghi, president of Federtennis. “The minister had courage, intelligence and corrected an injustice which, I repeat, was idiocy. And we in tennis are happy to have taken up the battle, even for all other sports”.
On Sunday 20 September starting at 12.00 for the first session of the semifinals, 1,000 people will be admitted on the Central Court. The second session will start at 18.00. On Monday 21st, the finals will be in a single session: from 2.30 pm the women’s final. Binaghi has launched a kind of click day to win the ticket: “We had sold about six thousand tickets for each session on Sunday and Monday and we will let in a thousand for each of the three sessions. The selection will take place temporally. The first 1000 that confirm attendance via email they will come in. For subscribers the same thing: we will find a mechanism to separate the ticket price from the value of the season ticket “.
The Internationals had been preceded by controversy. On 3 September the Technical Scientific Committee had judged insufficient the prevention measures presented by Federtennis, which had provided for a daily presence of 17,000 people throughout the Foro Italico park. A few days later, on the 8th, the press conference for the presentation of the tournament, at the Olympic Stadium, was the occasion for one very hard controversy by the # 1 of Fit, Binaghi, who had directly accused the Lazio Region, which had spoken of “idiocy” (the same term repeated today after the opening by the minister) and of “murder without a clear culprit” . Binaghi recalled that he had presented various protocols, but that “the Region had not wanted to take the responsibility of authorizing the presence of the public”. And the response of the regional council had been equally harsh.
Finally today the announcement by the Minister of Sport. However, for this weekend, the opening of the football stadiums, which will be the scene of the first day of the Serie A and B championships, is excluded. The president of Coni Malagò spoke of “first step forward, we need time, it seems to me that has always been supported, it is now a thesis, with difficulty by someone, understood and accepted, it is clear that the world of sport depending on the competition, the place, outdoor, indoor, and the size of the facility, it is hoped that the as soon as possible there are signs of this for obvious reasons “.
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