STA to stage Westbury Open ranking tennis from Jan 8

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KARACHI: The Sindh Tennis Association will organise 15th Westbury Open Ranking Tennis Championship from Jan 8-14, 2017 at DA Creek Club.

The events to be contested in the tournament include men’s singles, ladies singles, Juniors Under-17, Under-15, Under-13, Under 11, Under-9 and Seniors 50-plus singles.

With the technical support from the Pakistan Soft Tennis Association and the Para Sports soft tennis events will also be part of the tournament including the girls singles events are also included in the championships.

The last date of entry in Westbury Open in Jan 6.

All out-station players will get a daily allowance as per STA rules and all out station main draw players will also be entitled to economy class railway fare both ways.

The out-station players are required to send their entries through their respective provincial

or district tennis association while the Karachi-based players should send their entries to Khalid Rehmani at sindhtennis@gmail.com, or at 0300 3607209.

Khawaja Saeed Hai is the president of the organising committee while Khalid is the tournament director and referee. Sarwar Hus­sain is the media coordinator.

Published in Dawn January 1st, 2017

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