Rafael Nadal, Novak Djokovic, Carlos Alcaraz and new Australian Open champion Jannik Sinner are slated to take part in an exhibition occasion in Saudi Arabia in October, the dominion’s newest transfer into tennis.
Daniil Medvedev and Holger Rune are the opposite gamers concerned in what’s being touted because the “6 Kings Slam” in Riyadh.
All however Rune have gained no less than one Grand Slam title. Djokovic holds the boys’s file with 24, adopted by Nadal with 22. Alcaraz has two, and Sinner and Medvedev one apiece.
Nadal was just lately introduced as an envoy for the Saudi Tennis Federation.
Rights teams say girls proceed to face discrimination in most features of household life within the kingdom, and homosexuality is a significant taboo, as it’s in many of the remainder of the Center East.
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has labored to get himself out of worldwide isolation because the 2018 killing of Washington Publish columnist Jamal Khashoggi. He additionally clearly needs to diversify Saudi Arabia’s financial system and cut back its reliance on oil.
The ATP males’s tour moved its annual match for main gamers who’re 21-and-under to Jedda, and the WTA girls’s tour is in negotiations to place its season-ending championship in Saudi Arabia.