Steve Simon has stepped down from his CEO place on the WTA however will proceed working with the group as government chairman. In 2015, Simon changed Stacey Allaster because the WTA CEO. All through this 12 months, Simon and the WTA leaderboard have been listening to criticism from the gamers.

Throughout the WTA Finals, the criticism directed on the WTA solely intensified because the gamers and followers thought that the group did a really poor job of organizing the distinguished season-ending match. After all the pieces that occurred in Cancun, there have been public requires Simon to resign.

On Tuesday, the WTA introduced an organizational restructuring and Simon – who was appointed because the WTA CEO in 2015 – is stepping down from his present place.

The WTA pronounces Simon will not proceed as CEO

“The WTA (Girls’s Tennis Affiliation) is shifting ahead with its strategic plan for the expansion of ladies’s tennis with an additional revision to its construction.

The revised construction will separate the roles of Chairman and Chief Govt Officer (CEO) to permit better deal with the WTA’s mission and targets and can carry on an extra new chief to imagine the CEO position. The CEO will likely be charged with duty for managing and rising the operations of the WTA and its many initiatives.

The WTA has begun a complete choice course of for the CEO place, supported by the worldwide government search agency Korn Ferry. As soon as the place of CEO has been crammed, Steve Simon, at present Chairman and CEO of the WTA, will assume the position of Govt Chairman.

On this position, Simon will deal with governance, strategic pursuits of the WTA inside the sport, integrity points and the event of recent markets and frontiers for the WTA. Along with his designated position as Govt Chairman of the WTA, Simon continues to function Chair of the WTA Ventures Board,” the WTA mentioned in an announcement.

In his assertion, Simon claimed that him resigning from his present position has nothing to do with what occurred through the WTA Finals. “We began these discussions [about changing the WTA leadership structure] within the summertime, so they are not tied to something that occurred in Cancun or … the notion that it hasn’t been the simplest of years,” Simon mentioned.