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By Giri Nathan
[vc_empty_space height="15px"]The ATP Tour will not be rebooting as planned. On Monday, the Citi Open, which was due to begin August 14, was canceled. Safety concerns aside, it remains incredibly difficult to organize an event that requires players from all over the world to congregate in one place, and then head back to another event somewhere else in the world. Racquet spoke to Mark Ein, chairman of the Citi Open, about that process of planning an event like this amid so much uncertainty. This interview has been condensed and edited for clarity.[vc_separator]RACQUET: If you could list the factors that played into the decision to cancel the event, what were they?