Despite being the oldest women’s-only tournament in the world and one of the most attended, the Bank of the West Classic will have to move out of the Stanford University campus as soon as in 2018, simply because the university bureaucracy has decided to change its policies.
After 21 years of partnering with Stanford University, IMG has been notified by the University that its policy of hosting corporate sponsored events on campus has changed and Stanford will no longer be able to host a WTA event at the Taube Family Tennis Stadium.