WTA to add another grasscourt tournament starting 2015

The WTA announced that it will be adding another grasscourt tournament that will take place in Nottingham, England beginning this 2015 season. The reason behind the move is to provide more players more time to prepare for the Wimbledon tournament.

Both ATP and WTA have announced before that the time between the French Open and Wimbledon tournaments will be increased to three weeks starting 2015 to accomodate more grasscourt events.

Nottingham will join Birmingham, s’Hertogenbosch and Eastbourne as locations for warm-up grasscourt events leading to Wimbledon.