Qatar
Airways and Qatar Duty Free (QDF) will celebrate the opening of the
highly-anticipated Qatar ExxonMobil Open Men’s Tennis Tournament 2018,
as the Official Airline and Retail Sponsors.
World number-five
Dominic Thiem of Austria leads the lineup of competitors at this year’s
championship, which will host 32 singles players and 16 doubles teams
during the exciting six-day event, where all eyes will be on the world’s
top players to see who will take home this year’s winning title. The
tournament will be held at the state-of-the-art Khalifa International
Tennis and Squash Complex in Doha from 1-6 January 2018.
Qatar Airways Senior Vice President Marketing and Corporate Communications, Salam
al-Shawa,
said: “Qatar Airways is thrilled to once again be the official airline
partner of the ExxonMobil Open Men’s Tennis Tournament in Qatar.
Together we have attracted the world’s most talented tennis players to
Qatar to compete in this fantastic championship.
“This annual
competition has become a major highlight on Qatar’s sporting calendar,
drawing thousands of international and local fans alike to watch some of
the best players in the world compete. Spectators can be certain the
event will serve up some amazing matches during the course of the
competition. Qatar Airways believes in the power of sport bringing
people together, and is proud to support Qatar’s emergence as a
world-class sports and entertainment destination.”
Senior Vice
President Qatar Duty Free, Luis Gasset, said: “Qatar Duty Free is
thrilled to participate in this fantastic event and welcomes visitors of
all ages to watch the competition. We will ensure that spectators are
able to sample Qatar’s world-famous hospitality and are warmly welcomed
by Qatar Duty Free. “Special prizes are available at our Qatar Duty Free
booth, and four lucky winners will walk away with amazing gifts signed
by the tournament’s top players.”
Both Qatar Airways and Qatar Duty
Free will mark their presence at the event by hosting special booths at
the sponsors’ village, offering tennis fans a taste of their world-class
hospitality. Qatar Duty Free will also display unique gifts signed by
the players, providing four lucky fans with the chance to win them.
Qatar
Airways, the Official Airline partner of FIFA, is a leading supporter
of major global sporting events, including the 2018 FIFA World Cup
Russia and the FIFA Club World Cup.
The award-winning airline
received a number of accolades in 2017, including ‘Airline of the Year’
by the prestigious 2017 Skytrax World Airline Awards, which was held at
the Paris Air Show.
Live on beIN
beIN will cover live the Qatar ExxonMobil Open beginning in Doha today at the Khalifa International Tennis and Squash Complex.
Andy
Kerr and Nicky Crosby will be joined by former tennis star Prakash
Amritraj to preview and recap the day’s play on beIN SPORTS HD12.
Coverage gets underway at 3pm everyday throughout the tournament, with
Arabic coverage also available on beIN SPORTS HD9.
Today’s Order of Play
3.30pm: Centre Court: Cedrik-Marcel Stebe (GER) vs Andrey Rublev (RUS); Court 1: 7-Fernando Verdasco (ESP) vs Dudi Sela (ISR)
3.30pm;
Court 2: Pablo Carreno Busta (ESP) & Guillermo Garcia-Lopez (ESP)
vs Paolo Lorenzi (ITA) & Albert Ramos-Vinolas (ESP) 3.30pm.
Not
before 5.30pm: 1-Dominic Thiem (AUT) vs Evgeny Donskoy (RUS) on Centre
Court; 3-Feliciano Lopez (ESP) & Rajeev Ram (USA) vs (WC) Malek
Jaziri (TUN) & Mousa Shanan Zayed (QAT) on Court 1; Filip Krajinovic
(SRB) & Viktor Troicki (SRB) vs Borna Coric (CRO) & jan-Lennard
Struff (GER) on Court 2.
Later: Thomas Fabbiano (ITA) vs Nikoloz
Basilashvili (GEO) on Centre Court; 1-Jamie Murray (GBR) & Bruno
Soares (BRA) vs Marcin Matkowski (POL) & Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi (PAK)
on Court 1.
Followed by: Florian Mayer (GER) vs Stefanos Tsitsipas (GRE) on Centre Court.
