Tunisia s Jabeur in main draw of Qatar Total Open
22 Feb 2021 - 9:55
Ons Jabeur
The Peninsula
Doha: With less than two weeks left in the Qatar Total Open 2021, the numbers of confirmed stars for the WTA Tour Premier event continue to grow as Tunisia’s Ons Jabeur - the first Arab woman to reach the quarter-finals of a Grand Slam tournament - entered the main draw of the elite tournament.
The tournament will be held from March 1 to 6 at the Khalifa International Tennis & Squash Complex in Doha.
Aside from the 26-year-old World No. 30 Jabeur, the highest-ranked Arab player in WTA history, two-time champion and World No. 13 Victoria Azarenka of Belarus, 2016 finalist Jelena Ostapenko of Latvia, Egypt’s Mayar Sherif are joining the event as wildcard entrants.
(MENAFN - Gulf Times) As parts of the measures taken to ensure all participants health and safety, the draw ceremony of the Qatar Total Open 2021 will be held virtually on February 27.
The media and all interested tennis lovers can log in to follow the draw ceremony proceedings from the venue via the Qatar Tennis Federation (QTF) Facebook account https://facebook.com/qatartennis/.
The entry list of the $565,530 total prize purse tournament is out and it featured many superstars including eight of the World s top-ten players after the withdrawal of The American World No. 4 star; Sofia Kenin due to illness.
The list is led by World No.1 Ashleigh Barty of Australia, World No.2 Simona Halep, the 2014 champion and the 2019 Wimbledon Open semi-finalist the World No. 5 Elina Svitolina