NEW VANCOUVER WTA EVENT OFF; SEATTLE LPGA STOP NEEDS SPONSOR

          Tennis Canada said Thursday that a WTA Tour event
     planned for Vancouver in August is "off due to lack of
     sufficient sponsorship support," according to Lyndon Little
     of the VANCOUVER SUN.  The proposed Tier Three event
     offering a minimum of US$170,000 in prize money was to have
     been played August 5-13.  Last year, Tennis Canada President
     Bob Moffatt said that the event would need a budget of about
     C$700,000-800,000 and that "about half of that would need to
     come from corporate sponsorships."  Tennis Canada Dir of
     Communications Steve McAllister: "It wasn't a case where
     people aren't interested in sponsoring tennis.  I think it's
     just a combination of timing and being hard to get
     commitments on a tight deadline" (VANCOUVER SUN, 1/14). 
          LPGA STOP STILL SEEKING SPONSOR: In Seattle, Craig
     Smith wrote that the search continues for a sponsor to "keep
     an LPGA Tour stop alive in the Seattle area, but unless one
     is found within a month, the focus will shift to finding one
     for 2001" (See THE DAILY, 10/7) (SEATTLE TIMES, 1/14).