Japan Open women’s event scrapped to save energy
這篇新聞是在yahoo體育看到的，一開始看到標題還嚇了一跳，
以為在日本舉行的網球賽都要取消了。
但看了內文後，如果我沒理解錯誤，應該是泛太平洋賽和大阪賽都會繼續，
只是和日本男網賽同週舉行的女子賽事(100K+H)挑戰賽，
會因為地震後節能而取消。
TOKYO, May 13 (Reuters) - The women’s competition at the Japan Open tennis
tournament has been cancelled to conserve electricity but the country’s two
biggest events will go ahead as planned.
The tier one Pan Pacific Open tournament, beginning on Sept. 25, would not be
affected by the power-saving measures, organisers told Reuters on Friday.
The Japan Open men’s tournament, headlined by world number one Rafa Nadal
from Oct. 3-9, will also go ahead as scheduled.
The Japan Women’s Open in Osaka, which runs from Oct. 10 will also go ahead,
according to the WTA Tour.
“The women’s event at the Japan Open, at the same time Nadal is in Tokyo,
has been called off to save on electricity,” the Pan Pacific Open’s Atsuko
Isoyama said.
“The Pan Pacific Open is set to go on as scheduled but we’re currently
looking at the available data and examining ways to cut down on the use of
electricity.”
Pulling the plug on the ITF-organised women’s draw which traditionally runs
alongside the WTA’s Japan Open will slash the match schedule almost in half
to around 60.
Sports events across Japan have been plunged into chaos since the deadly
9.0-magnitude earthquake and tsunami on March 11 which devastated large
swathes of the country’s north-east.
The disaster left 28,000 people dead or missing, while the massive tsunami
triggered by the quake knocked out a nuclear power plant some 240 km (150
miles) north of Tokyo.
The typhoon season in Japan often causes a backlog of matches at the Tokyo
tennis events, forcing organisers to play night games under floodlights.
Workers have been working around the clock to prevent a Chernobyl-like
meltdown, forcing the abandonment of major sports events across the country.
Professional baseball and soccer, Japan’s two biggest spectator sports,
postponed the start of their seasons and have been ordered to conserve energy
amid the power crisis.
The world figure skating championships was the first casualty of the
disaster, being moved from Tokyo to Moscow, while the Japanese capital faces
being ditched as the host venue for the world gymnastics championships in
October.
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