Carlsbad WTA event to moved to Tokyo

The Premier-level WTA event that’s being staged in Carlsbad, California will be moved to Tokyo by the 2014 season. This development was confirmed by WTA and reported by Tennisreporters.com site.

This move means that the other WTA event held in Stanford will take over the schedule set originally for Carlsbad in 2014, meaning it will start on July 28. The new Tokyo WTA event will take place in September after the US Open.

This is the fourth loss of a WTA or ATP event in California in the past eight years.