Larry Scott Resigns as WTA Tour CEO

The Tennis Channel broke the news yesterday that Larry Scott would be stepping down as the Sony Ericson WTA Tour CEO. He resigned in order to become the Commissioner of the NCAA’s (National Collegiate Athletic Association) PAC-10 Conference, effective July 1, 2009.

In a statement about his resgination, Scott said, “With women’s professional tennis more popular than ever, the Tour in the strongest business position in its history and a fantastic senior management team in place, now is the right time for me to embrace a new challenge consistent with my family and personal goals, and leave room for the next generation of Tour leadership to take on new responsibilities”.

Tennis.com had a telephone interview with Scott this morning and he gave two reasons for stepping down. They were a grueling traveling schedule that kept him away from his wife and three kids and and impasses that prevented the WTA from merging with the ATP Tour.

“I was away from home 140 nights last year,” Scott said. “Not traveling for two months opened me up to what I was missing.”

You can read the rest of the interview here.

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