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Top China events may be merged

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The men's and women's professional tennis tours will decide next month whether to merge¹ their new top-level tournaments in China into one event, WTA Chief Executive Larry Scott said in Beijing yesterday.

Beijing was last month awarded one of the WTA's four new "Crown Jewel" events for 2009, while Shanghai will host an ATP Masters series tournament from the same season.

The tours are discussing the possibility of bringing the events together for a mixed tournament held in alternate years in the two cities.

"We all go to the second phase to decide how to coordinate², we will decide it within the next month," Scott told a news conference. "For grand slams and crown jewel events we want to see men and women play together."

Scott said merging³ the events was just one option being considered, while a Beijing sports bureau official said it would be "difficult."

"There are many difficulties in marketing⁴, organizing and sponsors," said Mu Dawei, deputy chief of Beijing Sports Bureau.

"If we fail to merge with Shanghai, we will apply for an ATP tournament instead."

The upgraded WTA China Open in Beijing will have at least US$4 million prize money, will be mandatory⁵ for the top 50 players in the world and will be played in the first week of October.

Shanghai's new Masters Series event will be the first and only ATP top-tier event in Asia

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1 merge
v.(使)结合，(使)合并，(使)合为一体
参考例句：
I can merge my two small businesses into a large one.我可以将我的两家小商店合并为一家大商行。 The directors have decided to merge the two small firms together.董事们已决定把这两家小商号归并起来。

2 coordinate
adj.同等的，协调的；n.同等者；vt.协作，协调
参考例句：
You must coordinate what you said with what you did.你必须使你的言行一致。 Maybe we can coordinate the relation of them.或许我们可以调和他们之间的关系。

3 merging
合并（分类）
参考例句：
Many companies continued to grow by merging with or buying competing firms. 许多公司通过合并或收买竞争对手的公司而不断扩大。来自英汉非文学 - 政府文件 To sequence by repeated splitting and merging. 用反复分开和合并的方法进行的排序。

4 marketing
n.行销，在市场的买卖，买东西
参考例句：
They are developing marketing network.他们正在发展销售网络。 He often goes marketing.他经常去市场做生意。

5 mandatory
adj.命令的；强制的；义务的；n.受托者
参考例句：
It's mandatory to pay taxes.缴税是义务性的。 There is no mandatory paid annual leave in the U.S.美国没有强制带薪年假。

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