People pose for a picture next to an ATP sign before the Shanghai Masters launch ceremony in Shanghai this week. (Photo: AFP)
SHANGHAI: China will next week host its first major international sports event since abandoning strict Covid-19 rules, heralding the return of elite competition to the country after more than three years.
With the exception of last year’s Beijing Winter Olympics, which took place in a “bubble”, almost all global sport ground to a halt in China after the pandemic emerged there in late 2019.
But China abruptly lifted its “zero-Covid” policy in December and world sport organisations will be eager to relaunch lucrative tournaments in the world’s second-largest economy.
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