Saeed bin Maktoum opens the World Tennis Championship against Djokovic
The World Tennis League, which is being held in cooperation with the Dubai Sports Council, kicked off yesterday evening in Dubai from December 19 to 24 at the Coca-Cola Arena, with the participation of 16 elite male and female players ranked in the first positions for men and women, led by Serbian Novak Djokovic, Russian Alexander Zverev and Nick Kyros. The runner-up of the Wimbledon Championship in men, Waija Swatic, ranked No. 1 for women, Valina Rybakina, holder of the Wimbledon Championship, Simona Halep, ranked No. 1 in the world previously, and other sixteen male and female players who will be distributed to 4 teams, each team includes 4 players of both sexes.
Sheikh Saeed bin Maktoum bin Juma Al Maktoum, President of the Padel Federation and former tennis star, inaugurated the event with an exhibition meeting with the star Novak Djokovic, which includes one round that is played with a fair break system of only 7 points, and Sheikh Saeed bin Maktoum drew the first official match of the tournament.
The exhibition match was attended by Nasser Aman Al Rahma, Assistant Secretary General of the Dubai Sports Council, Ali Omar Al Balushi, Director of the Council's Sports Events Department, members of the Organizing Committee, and fans of different nationalities.
Along with the participation of Novak Djokovic, winner of 21 Grand Slam titles, including nine Australian titles, two French titles, seven Wimbledon titles, three American titles, and five ATP World Tour Finals titles, The player Iga Shvontec, ranked first in the world, is the list of players with the French Open and the US Open titles in 2022, and next to them will be the player Alexander Zverev, who reached the second place in the world rankings this year, the player Nick Kyrgios, and the player Simona Halep, ranked Former world number one, and Elena Rybkina, the current title holder at Wimbledon, to a group of international stars.
On the first day, 3 matches were held, where the first match witnessed the Polish match Iga Chivontec of the Kites team against the French Caroline Garcia of the world-ranked 4-ranked Eagles team, and the second match witnessed the Australian Nick Kyrgios of the Eagles team facing Canadian Felix Auger Eliassim of the Kites team ranked 6 in the world, while the third match was held in the mixed doubles category, in which the Kites team faced the Eagles, and the Kites team included the Indian Sania Mirza and the Danish Holger Rohn, ranked 11 in the world, while the Eagles team included the Canadian Bianca Andreescu and the Indian Rohan Bobana .
While three matches will be held today, where the Serbian Novak Djokovic, representing the Falcons team, will face German Alexander Zverev, representing the Falcons team, and Belarusian Arina Sabalenka, ranked 5 in the world, representing the Falcons team, will play against the Russian Kazakh Yelena Rybakina, ranked 21 in the world, representing the Falcons team, and in a match Mixed doubles Bulgarian Grigor Dimitrov, ranked 28th in the world, and Spain's Paula Badusa Gibert, ranked 13th in the world, will represent the Falcons team, in front of Austrian Dominic Thiem and Estonian Anett Kontaveit, who reached the world number 2 this year.
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