RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — 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 received no less than one Grand Slam title. Djokovic holds the lads’s document with 24, adopted by Nadal with 22. Alcaraz has two, and Sinner and Medvedev one apiece.
Nadal was not too long ago introduced as an envoy for the Saudi Tennis Federation.
Rights teams say ladies proceed to face discrimination in most points of household life within the kingdom, and homosexuality is a significant taboo, as it’s in a lot 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 desires to diversify Saudi Arabia’s financial system and cut back its reliance on oil.
The ATP males’s tour moved its annual event for main gamers who’re 21 and beneath to Jedda, and the WTA ladies’s tour is in negotiations to place its season-ending championship in Saudi Arabia.
