Chinese participation in the tournament is halved
A resounding surprise in "Al Habtoor Tennis" .. an unknown player eliminates the first seed
Sang starred in front of Xiang despite the classification difference.
From the source
Sheetal Ayar: "What the executive team has done in the championship is unbelievable. It is an experienced professional."
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The third day of the 24th Al Habtoor International Women's Tennis Championships, which is being held at the Olympic Tennis Complex at the Al Habtoor Grand Hotel in Dubai, with prizes of 100,000 US dollars, witnessed a surprise of high caliber, the first-ranked champion in the Chinese championship, Shui Ziyang, who was eliminated by her non-national female citizen. The seed Zinwen Sang, with a score of two sets to one.
Ziyang advanced in the first set, and finished it with difficulty 7-6, while her performance declined and lost two sets, respectively, 1-6 and 4-6, respectively, after a confrontation that lasted two hours and 15 minutes, to catch up with her two colleagues who left the tournament in the past two days, and thus the Chinese attendance decreased in Championship halved.
On the doubles front, Egyptian Sandra and her Bulgarian colleague Isabella lacked homogeneity, and easily lost in two sets without a response to the doubles of Indonesia's Petrik and Taipei Yu Shi, in a time not exceeding 45 minutes.
For his part, the International Tennis Federation praised the efforts made by the Al Habtoor Group in managing and organizing the tournament. The representative of the International Tennis Federation and the general international referee for the tournament, and the owner of the only gold card in Asia, Sheetal Ayyar, said in a press statement, “What the executive team provided in the tournament is incredible. .. It is an experienced professional work, distinguished by teamwork, and the team has a broad organizational background, and the logistic work team in the tennis court complex and the hotel is wonderful, and provided very great facilities and support for the players, and this may not be available in many places, and for the sake of truth, I no longer feel I need to keep track of their work.”
On the technical level, Sheetal said, "There are high-level players, ranked among the top 100 in the world, and although many of them did not play for a long time, due to the pandemic, they, because of their love and passion for the game, performed well, and the tournament was a golden opportunity. They have to regain their athletic form.”
She added, "Among the players who caught my eye were the Ukrainian Daria Senghor and the Slovakian Kristina Kokova, who reached the Portugal final before coming to Dubai."
Sheetal noted that "it is not the first time she has visited Dubai, as she had previously visited twice, in 2000 and 2001, to participate in the arbitration of the Dubai Duty Free Open."
She added, "The most important positive points in her report will be the location, its location, its wonderful equipment, the performance of the executive team and our collaborators in management, organization and the comfort of the players, which are the most important for us, and rarely in Asia, especially that you find this great interest in the players and their comfort."
The tournament is run by a group of distinguished referees, led by the golden international referee Sheetal, and with her six chair judges, they are: the silver Egyptian Ahmed Abdel Azim, and four judges who hold the bronze card, and they are the Lebanese-American Walid Semaan, the Egyptian Rami Abdel Halim, the Czech Lucy, the Kazakh Yulia, and Adele. Suleiman, who holds a white card, also participates with the director of operations, Laith Al-Ani, the director of media, Hussam Al-Jayousi, and the director of logistical support, Jeffrey.
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