Qatar Tourism Authority sponsors the SonyEricsson WTA Tour
Top female tennis players will compete in Doha October 27-November 1, 2009
Doha, Qatar (26 October 2009)- As part of its strategy to promote sports tourism in Qatar, Qatar Tourism Authority (QTA) has announced that it will sponsor the SonyEricsson WTA Tour in Doha. The Championships will begin in Qatar on October 27th and will continue through November 1st at the Khalifa International Tennis Complex. This is the second of three years that the SonyEricsson WTA Tour will play in Doha.
Doha first hosted the SonyEricsson WTA Tour in 2008, marking the first time the tour’s year-end event had been played in the Middle East. This year, the tournament will feature top female players Dinara Safina, Serena Williams, Elena Dementiva, Caroline Wozniacki, Svetlana Kuznetsova, Venus Williams and Victoria Azarenka. An eighth player will be added to this list following the lead-up SonyEricsson tour event in Moscow: the Kremlin Cup. In Doha, the women will compete in both singles and doubles tournaments, contending for prizes totaling US$4.55 million.
Sport has always played an important role in the lives of Qatari residents. With extensive, world class facilities, Qatar is fast becoming one of the world’s leading places for sports and leisure. Over the last several years, Qatar has invested US$2.8 billion in infrastructure to support top athletic competitions like the SonyEricsson WTA Tour, and such state-of-the-art facilities as the ASPIRE Zone, a premier complex for athletics, entertainment, recreation and wellness.
Qatar Tourism Authority promotes major sporting events such as the SonyEricsson WTA Tour as a way to invite visitors to extend their stay in Doha as well as to attract incoming travelers to the event. Qatar has played host to world-scale events like the 2006 Asian Games, the ExxonMobil Tennis Open, the Commercialbank Qatar Masters and will host the upcoming 2011 Asian Cup football tournament and 12th Pan Arab Games. Qatar recently announced its bid for the 2022 FIFA World Cup. World class sporting events such as these not only give an outstanding exposure to the world, but enable as well to spread strong values, such as equality between women and men in sports, as it happened in Doha
QTA is proud to sponsor the SonyEricsson WTA Tour. The role of Qatar Tourism Authority is to organize, enable and supervise the tourism industry development of Qatar for leisure, business, education and, of course, sport. The SonyEricsson WTA Tour series is another great tournament that Qatar hopes to host again in the coming years to bolster tourism and enhance the lives of Qataris.
Qatar Tourism Authority sponsors the SonyEricsson WTA Tour
Top female tennis players will compete in Doha October 27-November 1, 2009
Doha, Qatar (26 October 2009)- As part of its strategy to promote sports tourism in Qatar, Qatar Tourism Authority (QTA) has announced that it will sponsor the SonyEricsson WTA Tour in Doha. The Championships will begin in Qatar on October 27th and will continue through November 1st at the Khalifa International Tennis Complex. This is the second of three years that the SonyEricsson WTA Tour will play in Doha.
Doha first hosted the SonyEricsson WTA Tour in 2008, marking the first time the tour’s year-end event had been played in the Middle East. This year, the tournament will feature top female players Dinara Safina, Serena Williams, Elena Dementiva, Caroline Wozniacki, Svetlana Kuznetsova, Venus Williams and Victoria Azarenka. An eighth player will be added to this list following the lead-up SonyEricsson tour event in Moscow: the Kremlin Cup. In Doha, the women will compete in both singles and doubles tournaments, contending for prizes totaling US$4.55 million.
Sport has always played an important role in the lives of Qatari residents. With extensive, world class facilities, Qatar is fast becoming one of the world’s leading places for sports and leisure. Over the last several years, Qatar has invested US$2.8 billion in infrastructure to support top athletic competitions like the SonyEricsson WTA Tour, and such state-of-the-art facilities as the ASPIRE Zone, a premier complex for athletics, entertainment, recreation and wellness.
Qatar Tourism Authority promotes major sporting events such as the SonyEricsson WTA Tour as a way to invite visitors to extend their stay in Doha as well as to attract incoming travelers to the event. Qatar has played host to world-scale events like the 2006 Asian Games, the ExxonMobil Tennis Open, the Commercialbank Qatar Masters and will host the upcoming 2011 Asian Cup football tournament and 12th Pan Arab Games. Qatar recently announced its bid for the 2022 FIFA World Cup. World class sporting events such as these not only give an outstanding exposure to the world, but enable as well to spread strong values, such as equality between women and men in sports, as it happened in Doha
QTA is proud to sponsor the SonyEricsson WTA Tour. The role of Qatar Tourism Authority is to organize, enable and supervise the tourism industry development of Qatar for leisure, business, education and, of course, sport. The SonyEricsson WTA Tour series is another great tournament that Qatar hopes to host again in the coming years to bolster tourism and enhance the lives of Qataris.
