Dubai Sports Council launches ‘Open Padel Cup for Government Institutions’

The Dubai Sports Council (DSC) has announced the enactment of the ‘Open Padel Cup for Government Institutions’ tournament, which is being held successful practice with the Just Padel Club, astatine their courts successful Port Rashid area, from December 13-15.

The athletics of Padel has witnessed a increasing popularity successful caller times and the organisers led by the DSC are hoping to pat successful section Emirati endowment employed successful assorted authorities departments successful the country.

Details of the tourney were announced astatine a property league by Fawzia Faridoun, Director of the Community Sports Department astatine the Dubai Sports Council, Anwar Idrissi, Director of the Just Padel Club, Ann Jiao, CEO of sponsors Royal Griffin and Henry Chan from sponsors, Cook One Company.

Also attending the announcement astatine the Dubai Sports Council office was erstwhile French footballer Ibrahim Bah on with Argentinean padel subordinate Adrian Eduardo Fernandez.

“We are delighted to spouse with the starring Just Padel Club to organise this tournament. This tourney is simply a caller and distinctive summation to the database of yearly sporting events held successful Dubai passim the year. The Dubai Sports Council is pleased to enactment the tourney arsenic it contributes to enhancing the diverseness of sporting events that the Council is keen to execute portion providing opportunities to sports fans of each nationalities who are surviving successful Dubai. This tourney besides represents an perfect exemplary of practice betwixt the nationalist and backstage sectors,” Fawzia said.

“Padel has established its rightful presumption successful Dubai with its wide and accelerated spread. By far, it is among the fastest-developing athletics successful the UAE arsenic it has gained immense popularity, arsenic seen by the increasing fig of courts dedicated to padel successful Dubai itself. Padel is connected the emergence among players of antithetic ages and gender. Dubai has hosted galore large tournaments successful caller years, including, but not constricted to, the World Team Championship and Masters Championships, the astir caller of which was the Premier Dubai Padel 1 Championship that witnessed the information of an elite radical of the champion antheral and pistillate players successful the world,” she added.

Anwar Idrissi, Director of Just Padel announced the opening of the registration process that really kicked-off information successful the Open Padel Cup Championship for each authorities institutions crossed the UAE. Registration volition proceed till the tourney introduction database reaches a maximum of 32 teams. 

Each institution/team volition beryllium allowed to tract 8 (8) antheral Emirati players, six of whom volition beryllium allowed connected the tract and the remaining 2 arsenic reserves. Professional players registered successful clubs oregon with the UAE Padel Association volition not beryllium allowed to participate, frankincense ensuring that astatine slightest 300 Emirati amateurs volition get the payment of being portion of the competition.

The competitions volition beryllium held successful a single-round, knockout league system, and the first-place victor volition locomotion distant with a currency grant of AED 30,000, portion the runners-up volition person AED 20,000.

Speaking connected behalf of sponsors Cook One Company, Henry Chan, said: “We are pleased to beryllium partners successful organizing this pioneering tourney that volition lend successful discovering Emirati talent. We, astatine Cook One Company, person chosen to unfastened an bureau successful Dubai due to the fact that of the renaissance it is witnessing successful each sports, tourism and economical fields. We person a tendency to dedicate portion of our enactment to the payment of the community. We person antecedently participated successful the Climate Summit and galore specified assemblage events. We are blessed to beryllium sponsors of this tourney arsenic we realise however important Sports is for the wide improvement of society.”

“Padel is not a caller sport. In fact, it is among the fastest-growing sports successful the UAE and the region. We are present to substance this maturation arsenic we judge Padel has each the ingredients of being an Olympic athletics successful the future. With the unification of sports and technology, they tin person a agleam future,” Chan added.

Ann Jiao related: “I convey everyone for their involvement successful the event. We are besides grateful to the involvement shown by Dubai Sports Council, without whom this lawsuit would not person been possible. I convey the sponsors, and we are pleased to cooperate with the tourney sponsor and Just Padel to laic retired this inaugural variation of this tournament.”

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