Murray grabs Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships wildcard

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Andy Murray has confirmed his participation at this month’s Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships, accepting a second consecutive wildcard from organisers.

The Scot’s presence will strengthen a males’s discipline that already options eight of the world’s high 20 male gamers.

The annual two-week tennis extravaganza, which begins with the WTA occasion, is scheduled to run from February 19 to March 4.

While capturing three Grand Slam occasions is a big a part of Murray’s profitable profession, he reached World No.1 in 2016 and made historical past at that 12 months’s Olympic Games when he turned the one participant to win back-to-back gold medals in tennis singles.

A two-time finalist in Dubai, Murray defeated Fernando Verdasco in 2017 to raise the trophy, earlier than a sequence of accidents noticed him slip down the world rankings.

Murray accepted a wildcard to return to the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Stadium final 12 months.

Making his first look on the ATP 500 occasion since his triumph 5 years earlier, he reached the Round of 16 and can be trying to enhance on that this time round after some encouraging performances ultimately month’s Australian Open.

“Coming back to Dubai brings with it a lot of good memories, not least 2017 and the final with Fernando,” stated Murray.

“My form is improving and my game is getting better, so the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships provides another great opportunity for me to continue to climb back up the rankings,” he added.

Murray joins a stellar discipline that features new World No.1 Novak Djokovic, who’s chasing a sixth Dubai title, final 12 months’s champion Andrey Rublev, 2021 US Open winner Daniil Medvedev, Olympic Gold medalist Alexander Zverev, and World No.7 Felix Auger-Aliassime, amongst others.

“Everybody knows how important a figure he is in British tennis and, as we have seen in the seven previous times he has competed at our event, he always attracts a strong and passionate support base. He accepted our wildcard last year and was a credit to the tournament and we are very happy he has accepted our invite once again,” stated Colm McLoughlin, Executive Vice Chairman & CEO of Dubai Duty Free.

Elsewhere, organisers confirmed the ladies’s match, which runs from February 19 to 25, will characteristic all 10 of the world’s high 10 feminine gamers.

Tickets for the thirty first version of the Championships are on sale on-line, ranging from AED 55.

They will even be obtainable on the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Stadium Box Office from February 9 and can open at 8:00 am and thereafter from 9:00 am and 9:00 pm.

Tournament organisers have urged followers to safe their seats by the official platforms.

The Championships will begin with the twenty third staging of the WTA occasion from February 19 to 25, earlier than the thirty first staging of the ATP Tour 500 match from February 26 to March 4.

We are delighted to announce that former World No.1 and Olympic gold medalist @andy_murray will compete at this 12 months’s Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships!
 
Fresh from his heroics on the Australian Open, the two-time Wimbledon champion will return to the Middle East this month! pic.twitter.com/NC0S46SPoe

— Dubai Tennis Champs (@DDFTennis) February 7, 2023