{"id":98126,"date":"2025-06-24T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-24T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/ksa\/2025\/06\/24\/more-saudis-are-growing-fond-of-tennis\/"},"modified":"2025-06-24T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2025-06-24T00:00:00","slug":"more-saudis-are-growing-fond-of-tennis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/ksa\/2025\/06\/24\/more-saudis-are-growing-fond-of-tennis\/","title":{"rendered":"More Saudis are growing fond of Tennis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"><strong>The gro<\/strong><strong>wing <\/strong><strong>interest in tennis from amateurs in the Kingdom caught the interest of the <\/strong><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/52095a6d-54ac-4904-a383-3d6b9b9a61a6\" style=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">Financial Times<\/a><\/strong>, referring to initiatives like the Tennis Federation\u2019s \u201cTennis For All\u201d in 2022 that trained 2k students across the kingdom, as well as the federation efforts with the Education Ministry to integrate the sport in 400 schools by year-end.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\">(<strong>** Tap or click the headline above to read this story with all of the links<\/strong> to our background and outside sources.)<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"><strong>The salmon-colored paper shed light on the Kingdom\u2019s bids to hold tennis tournaments<\/strong>, including inaugurating the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.diriyahtenniscup.com\/\" style=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">Diriyah Tennis Cup<\/a> in 2019, where it gathered global players such as Daniil Medvedev and Stan Wawrinka in its first ever major event. Riyadh also hosted the Six Kings Slam in October 2024, with Novak Djokovic, Rafael Nadal, Carlos Alcaraz, Daniil Medvedev, and Holger Rune receiving a minimum of USD 1.5 mn each, while the title winner Jannik Sinner got USD 6 mn, the biggest prize in the sport\u2019s history.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"><strong>Challenges are still facing the game in the Kingdom<\/strong>, including the scarcity of tennis courts and their high booking costs at some SAR 400 per hour. Entrepreneurs like Faris Al Turki are tapping into the budding tennis market by establishing tennis academies and courts \u2014 like Al Turki\u2019s Net Tennis Academy in Diriyah \u2014 which are gaining increasing demand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Kingdom is investing in hosting tennis tournaments, such as Diriyah Tennis Cup and Six Kings Slam<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":98127,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":false,"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_primary_brand":0,"newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2561],"tags":[10,229,8,2659],"brand":[],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"class_list":["post-98126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-saudi-in-the-news","tag-enterpriseam-ksa","tag-saudi-in-the-news","tag-sports","tag-tennis","wpautop","entry"],"acf":{"mongo_id":"fc56e267-e8fd-494b-bb47-ff3dbf32eb3c","order":"9","is_powered_by":false,"story_type":"1","photo_url":"https:\/\/ent.news\/2025\/6\/1376.jpg","photo_position":"above","homepage_title":"","full_issue_title":"Saudi Arabia held its first ever major tennis event at Diriyah in 2019","related_issue":[98110],"teaser":"The Kingdom is investing in hosting tennis tournaments, such as Diriyah Tennis Cup and Six Kings Slam","voice_url":"https:\/\/s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/ent.news\/audio\/2025\/6\/.8fe8cc7e-bbbc-4cc7-8c91-f38a7985709e.mp3"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.1 (Yoast SEO v27.1.1) - 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