27 of the best players in the world participating in the Dubai Tennis Championship
Dubai, February 14/WAM/The Tennis Professional Association (WTA) announced that the Dubai Free Market Championship will celebrate its twenty -fifth version this year, through the participation of 27 of the 30 best players in the world rankings.
The championship competition will be held tomorrow, Saturday, with the competitions starting on Sunday, February 16th and will continue until the 22nd of the same month, before the 500 -point men championship begins in the Tennis Professionals Association tour.
The value of the financial prizes for the women’s championship is more than 3.6 million dollars, as the winner of the individual title receives 597 thousand dollars and 1000 rating points.
The League emphasized that one of the most prominent participants in this fourth -ranked version in the world Yasmine Paulini, which returns to Dubai to defend its first title in the WTA 1000 tournaments, which contributed to entering the list of the five best players globally, in addition to reaching the final in the major championships Roland Garros and Wimbldon.
Paulini was the second Italian player to win the single women in Dubai after Sarah Iran, the 2016 version.
The championship also witnesses the participation of the first three works in the world Arena Sabalinka, Aga Chiffak and Coco Goff, in their endeavor to achieve their first titles in Dubai, where she was the closest to that in 2023, but lost the final against Barbora Kreticova.
Bellinda Penchic, who opened her season by winning the Abu Dhabi swap for the second time, is also participating in less than four months after returning to the stadiums after the maternity leave, and seeks to win her second title in Dubai after winning the 2019 championship.
Among the prominent names in the current version, Elina Svetolina, who is the last player to win the Dubai title twice in 2017 and 2018, with a series of victories that spanned 12 consecutive games. In terms of records, Justin Henin tops the list of the most crowned championship with four titles between 2003 and 2007, while Venus Williams has three titles in her record.
The organizing committee also announced the participation of Emma Radocano, the former American heroine, after receiving an invitation card, to record her first appearance in the tournament.
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