{"id":18565,"date":"2024-02-05T21:03:30","date_gmt":"2024-02-06T02:03:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/sport\/rafael-nadal-novak-djokovic-more-set-for-saudi-arabia-exhibition\/05\/02\/2024\/"},"modified":"2024-02-05T21:03:30","modified_gmt":"2024-02-06T02:03:30","slug":"rafael-nadal-novak-djokovic-more-set-for-saudi-arabia-exhibition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/sport\/rafael-nadal-novak-djokovic-more-set-for-saudi-arabia-exhibition\/05\/02\/2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Rafael Nadal, Novak Djokovic, more set for Saudi Arabia exhibition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>RIYADH, Saudi Arabia &#8212; <a data-player-guid=\"f091e8bf-f001-4687-0448-4b009dd966e8\" href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=261\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Rafael Nadal<\/a>, <a data-player-guid=\"4a27bb1c-2422-55c3-208b-9e9d8c1f30af\" href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=296\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Novak Djokovic<\/a>, <a data-player-guid=\"07843754-8bdf-63b0-5983-24252738169e\" href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=3782\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Carlos Alcaraz<\/a> and new Australian Open champion <a data-player-guid=\"431a1bce-57de-2a02-8022-9f32b0f60efb\" href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=3623\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Jannik Sinner<\/a> are slated to participate in an exhibition event in Saudi Arabia in October, the kingdom&#8217;s latest move into tennis.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=2383\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Daniil Medvedev<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=3659\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Holger Rune<\/a> are the other players involved in what is being touted as the &#8220;6 Kings Slam&#8221; in Riyadh.<\/p>\n<p>All but Rune have won at least one Grand Slam title. Djokovic holds the men&#8217;s record with 24, followed by Nadal with 22. Alcaraz has two, and Sinner and Medvedev one apiece.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"inline editorial float-r\" data-behavior=\"article_related\">\n<h2 class=\"editorial-title\">Editor&#8217;s Picks<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a name=\"&amp;lpos=story:editorspicks:inline:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.co.uk\/tennis\/story\/_\/id\/39317652\/rafael-nadal-named-ambassador-saudi-tennis-federation\" class=\"img-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a name=\"&amp;lpos=story:editorspicks:inline:2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.co.uk\/tennis\/story\/_\/id\/39382177\/chris-evert-martina-navratilova-oppose-wta-finals-saudi-arabia\" class=\"img-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"><img style=\"display:block\" class=\"lazyload\" data-sizes=\"auto\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/a.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?w=75&resize=75 75w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/a.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?w=100&resize=100 100w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/a.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?w=150&resize=150 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/a.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?w=240&resize=240 240w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/a.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?w=320&resize=320 320w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/a.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?w=500&resize=500 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/a.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?w=640&resize=640 640w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/a.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?w=800&resize=800 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/a.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?w=1024&resize=1024 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/a.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?w=1280&resize=1280 1280w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/a.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?w=1600&resize=1600 1600w\" data-src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/a.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i\" width=\"65\" height=\"65\"\/><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>1 Related<\/p>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Nadal was recently announced as an ambassador for the Saudi Tennis Federation.<\/p>\n<p>Rights groups say women continue to face discrimination in most aspects of family life in the kingdom, and homosexuality is a major taboo, as it is in most of the rest of the Middle East.<\/p>\n<p>Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has worked to get himself out of international isolation since the 2018 killing of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi. He also clearly wants to diversify Saudi Arabia&#8217;s economy and reduce its reliance on oil.<\/p>\n<p>The ATP men&#8217;s tour moved its annual tournament for leading players who are 21 and under to Jedda, and the WTA women&#8217;s tour is in negotiations to put its season-ending championship in Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.co.uk\/tennis\/story\/_\/id\/39466445\/rafael-nadal-novak-djokovic-more-saudi-arabia-exhibition\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RIYADH, Saudi Arabia &mdash; Rafael Nadal, Novak Djokovic, Carlos Alcaraz and new Australian Open champion Jannik Sinner are slated to participate in<br \/><button class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/sport\/rafael-nadal-novak-djokovic-more-set-for-saudi-arabia-exhibition\/05\/02\/2024\/\">Read More &rsaquo;<\/a><\/button><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18568,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[213],"tags":[2584,871,4286,1619,865,1618,883,163],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18565"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18565"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18567,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18565\/revisions\/18567"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}