The 2022 Diria Tennis Cup, which will be held yesterday, Thursday and last until Saturday, was launched as part of the activities of the second season of Diria, and the draw for the tournament took place last Wednesday, in the presence of a number of international tennis players, officials from the Ministry of Sports, the Diria season and organizing committee in the village of Al-Diriya Sport.
As a result of the draw of the tournament, in which 12 players of the world ranking will take part, including five of the 10 best players in the world, 4 seeds have qualified for the quarterfinals, namely: Stefanos Tsitsipas, ranked fourth in the world, Daniel Medvedev, ranked seventh in the world, Andrei Rublev is ranked eighth in the world and Taylor Fritz is ranked ninth in the world.
The first round matches will take place on the first day of the tournament between player Stan Wawrinka, ranked 150th in the world ranking, and Matteo Berrettini, ranked 20th, with the winner of both matches facing Andrey Rublev, and player Dominic Thiem, ranked 102nd , will meet with Alexander Zverev, who takes 12th place in the second match, and the winner of them will meet with Daniil Medvedev.
Cameron Norrie, ranked 14th in the world, will face Nick Kyrgios, ranked 22nd in the world, in the third match, while the winner will face Stefanos Tsitsipas, and in the fourth match, Hubert Gurkach, ranked 41st, will face Dominic Stricker. ranked 155th in the world and the winner will face Taylor Fritz.
The second day will feature doubles matches between the first day losers, as well as the singles semi-final matches, while the singles and doubles championship finals will take place on closing day the following Saturday.
Notably, the Diria Tennis Cup will continue for three days, at the Diria Open Stadium in historic Diria, with a capacity of 7,000 spectators, with the matches of the tournament broadcast to all corners of the world through the Eurosport network, in addition to a number of other sports channels, since the tournament includes numerous recreational and cultural activities in the sports village of Diriyah, in addition to holding singing and music concerts, in addition to an exhibition match that brings together a number of tennis players in a tournament in front of the winners of the Saudi Games.
