With COVID-19 shutting both tours down a huge part of 2020, the ATP and WTA created fall schedules that gave players chances to play while also keeping them safe. Tennis returned in the beginning of August, but the schedules were not the equal.
After the US Open, there were only six WTA tournaments left compared to the ATP's 13. While all players have had chances to compete, the schedules were clearly made without collaboration between the two tours.
The discrepancy was the most obvious during the week of October 12. There were no WTA events while the men had three options: St. Petersburg, Sardinia and Cologne. After that week, the ATP had six scheduled events left plus the ATP Finals, while women just one (Linz on Nov. 9).
There's obviously a lot of factors at play in holding tournaments and making new tournaments out of thin air during a pandemic, but it still begs the question: