Saudi Arabia will host a brand new elite tennis exhibition that includes Novak Djokovic and Rafael Nadal and three different Grand Slam winners in October.
The Six Kings Slam occasion will kind a part of the Saudi cultural and leisure pageant Riyadh Season.
Main winners Carlos Alcaraz, Daniil Medvedev and Jannik Sinner will even line up, in addition to Holger Rune.
The occasion will happen in the course of the ATP season, which already has a full schedule that month.
Exhibition occasions are normally performed throughout breaks within the ATP season or after it has completed however in October gamers are already as a result of be concerned in Masters 1000 tournaments in Shanghai and Paris.
Spaniard Nadal, who signed up as an envoy for the Saudi Arabian Tennis Federation final month, stated he was wanting ahead to the occasion.
“After another tennis gamers have finished so, I’m very excited to play for the primary time in Riyadh,” the 22-time Grand Slam champion stated.
Saudi Arabia already hosts the season-ending Subsequent Gen ATP Finals for the main males’s under-21 gamers in Jeddah and there was in depth debate over the nation doubtlessly internet hosting the ladies’s WTA Finals.
Lately, tennis greats Chris Evert and Martina Navratilova wrote an opinion piece outlining their opposition to the ladies’s season-ending occasion being staged there.
Critics of Saudi Arabia have accused the oil-rich kingdom of utilizing its wealth to spend money on sports activities in a bid to enhance its picture – often known as ‘sportswashing’.
It follows current heavy funding in golf, Components 1, soccer and boxing specifically.
Campaigning organisations stay important of Saudi Arabia’s document on human rights and equality.