KARACHI: Standard Chartered upskilled community coaches from Karachi United Football Club (KUFC) to build future footballers of Pakistan. This programme was led by two Liverpool FC academy coaches for 12 KUFC coaches who work across underserved communities and are an integral part of the Bank’s annual football community league. Steven Gillespie and Paul O Brien, coaches who work with the …

News Desk DUBAI:  Top seed and world number one Novak Djokovic is ready for action at the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships this week, in what will be his first tournament since lifting the Australian Open trophy for the eighth time last month. He will be bidding for his fifth title in Dubai, after winning in 2009-11 and 2013, and …

By Muhammad Rafiq DUBAI: Top seed Simona Halep defeated Elena Rybakina 3-6 6-3 7-6(5) on Saturday to claim her second Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships title. It was arguably the most dramatic final in the history of the women’s event and a fitting end to the 20th anniversary celebrations of the tournament hosting the WTA Tour. In what proved to be an exciting …

Sport Desk DUBAI: Novak Djokovic will face former semi-finalist Malek Jaziri in the first round of the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships. In his most recent appearance in Dubai in 2018, the Tunisian swept all the way through to the final four, upsetting world number 4 Grigor Dimitrov in the 1st round, Robin Haase in the 2nd and the emerging …

Sport Desk DUBAI: Top seed and former champion Simona Halep will face Dubai debutant Elena Rybakina in the final of the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships on Saturday after both won straight-set but contrasting semi-final victories. Halep, who will be attempting to reclaim the trophy she won in 2015, ended the run of qualifier Jennifer Brady 6-2 6-0, and Rybakina …

DUBAI: Elena Rybakina continued her red-hot form to storm into her fourth final of 2020 with a 7-6(5) 7-6(2) triumph over No.8 seed Petra Matric at the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships. The 20-year-old, having already lifted the Hobart International title this season, has accumulated a Tour-leading 19 match wins so far. Rybakina, having overturned a break deficit in each …

DUBAI: Tennis Emirates hosted over 50 young tennis players from affiliated tennis academies across the UAE during their Coaching Clinic on the second day of the WTA week at the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships. The children, all under the age of eight, participated in a coaching clinic run by Tennis Emirates staff and Academy Coaches and had a great time …

Sport Desk KARACHI: To celebrate Pakistan Super League seas 5 being played in Pakistan, Naya Nazimabad hosted a send-off lunch in honour of the PSL Teams Karachi Kings’ and Quetta Gladiators. The ceremony was attended by Governor Sindh, Imran Ismail; Provincial Minister; Saeed Ghani; Mayor Karachi, Waseem Akhtar; Commissioner Karachi, Iftikhar Shallwani; along with top businessmen, bankers, cricketers and a …

DUBAI:  Over 200 children from local schools across the UAE took to the courts today on the first day of play to kick-start the celebrations of the 20th anniversary of the WTA tour hosted by the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships. Children from six schools enjoyed the WTA J.P. Morgan Kids’ Day which included a tennis clinic for kids of all skill levels along …

DUBAI: Spanish tennis player, Garbine Muguruza treated herself ahead of her first game at the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships with a quick shopping spree at the Dubai Duty Free shop in Terminal 3, Concourse A. Muguruza was welcomed by Dubai Duty Free staff on arrival and celebrated the 20th anniversary of the WTA week by choosing 20 items that she …