Tennis legends coming to Dubai

In less than three months, Dubai will host one of the region’s benchmark sporting events: ‘The Legends Rock Dubai. Now in its third year, the event has not only caught the imagination of the UAE public, but also the attention of world’s most famous and successful tennis players. Players like former world #1 and winner of four Grand Slam titles Jim Courier or former world #2 Goran Ivanisevic will participate. Among other tennis luminaries like Thomas Muster, Pat Cash, Michael Stich, Paul Haarhuis, Mikael Pernfors and Mansour Bahrami are also confirmed players for this year’s event.

The five-day program starts on 20 November with the official press conference with all players attending and is followed by the popular Kids Day, PRO AM and the charity gala dinner on 21 November. From 22-24 November it is all about tennis: spectators will be invited to watch two singles matches and one doubles exhibitions in a knock-out format of six players, the losing players still competing in the doubles exhibitions. Gate opens Thursday at 5 pm and Friday and Saturday at 6 pm.