{"id":66606,"date":"2025-10-08T13:39:44","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T09:39:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/?p=66606"},"modified":"2025-10-08T13:39:44","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T09:39:44","slug":"dubai-duty-free-tennis-championships-incorporate-week-of-wta-1000-womens-tennis-followed-by-week-of-atp-500-mens-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/dubai-duty-free-tennis-championships-incorporate-week-of-wta-1000-womens-tennis-followed-by-week-of-atp-500-mens-action\/","title":{"rendered":"Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships Incorporate Week Of WTA 1000 Women\u2019s Tennis Followed By Week Of ATP 500 Men\u2019s Action"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"read\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dubaiverse.io\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dubai<\/a> Duty Free Tennis Championships, the emirate\u2019s oldest and most popular professional tennis event, which incorporates a week of WTA 1000 women\u2019s tennis followed by a week of ATP 500 men\u2019s action, takes place next year from February 15-28 at the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Stadium. And with the women\u2019s tournament having held WTA 1000 status since 2023, the sport\u2019s 20 top-ranked players are expected to compete, if fit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"read\">Fans can catch the likes of World No1 Aryna Sabalenka, six-time Grand Slam winner Iga Swiatek, 21-year-old American prodigy Coco Gauff, and reigning Dubai champion Mirra Andreeva during the first three days of on-court action.<\/p>\n<p class=\"read\">Marking the 26th anniversary of the women\u2019s event and the 34th anniversary of Dubai\u2019s ATP tournament, fans returning to the famous stadium in Al Garhoud will notice ongoing redevelopment and expansion of the site, which from February will include a brand new 2,000 seat Court 1 and for 2027 see Centre Court increase its capacity by 50%.<\/p>\n<p class=\"read\">Ramesh Cidambi, Managing Director of Dubai Duty Free, said the redevelopment is aligned with the goal of ensuring the venue continues to host world-class events, accommodate a larger and more engaged audience, and generate increased TV coverage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"read\">\u201cThe Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships has been one of Dubai\u2019s flagship sporting events since the 1990s, welcoming the game\u2019s best men and, later, women players,\u201d Cidambi said. \u201cThroughout that time, we have constantly looked to grow, improve, and provide an even bigger and better event for the players, officials and spectators.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"read\">Tournament Director Salah Tahlak, who is also the Deputy Managing Director of Dubai Duty Free, added: \u201cWe saw the depth of women\u2019s tennis this year in Dubai as Mirra Andreeva came through a field that included nine of the world\u2019s top 10 women and 16 of the top 20 to become, at the age of 17, the youngest WTA 1000 champion in history. We are confident of having incredibly strong line-ups across both the women\u2019s and men\u2019s tournaments once again and anticipate another fortnight of fantastic tennis.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships, the emirate\u2019s oldest and most popular professional tennis event, which incorporates a week of WTA 1000 women\u2019s tennis followed by a week of ATP 500 men\u2019s action, takes place next year from February 15-28 at the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Stadium. And with the women\u2019s tournament having held WTA 1000 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":66607,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66606"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66608,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66606\/revisions\/66608"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dubaicityguide.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}