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Who said that in December you rest from tennis?

The sprawling and tight tennis calendar reportedly saw its final chapter in the Davis Cup finals with Canada raising the cup in Malaga. Yet nothing is what it seems and December dawns with exhibition events that are able to keep the ball “alive”. Always with the Australian Open on the horizon and with succulent prizes just for participating. The Persian Gulf as “wallpaper” so that the wait does not become so long.

Competition formats with shorter matches than normal combining them with acts of presence, paradisiacal rest and doubles matches. Those are the ingredients of a magical recipe that makes the preseason more enjoyable. Names like those of Novak Djokovic, Daniil Medvedev, Stefanos Tsitsipas, Andrey Rublev, Holger Rune, Dominic Thiem, Iga Swiatek o Paula Badosaamong many others, will delight fans of the Middle East.

The Diriyah Cup, for example, from December 8 to 10 in Saudi Arabia will count four Byes in the first round that will allow access to the first four seeds in the quarterfinals. will serve for the return of Alexander Zverev to the courts and the always interesting presence of Nick Kyrgios.

The Mubadala World Tennis Championship, from December 16 to 18 in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, it is already a classic. There will be a women’s match again, this time between Ons Jabeur and Emma Raducanu, as well as a six-player draw, with Bye for Casper Ruud and Carlos Alcaraz, who are already waiting in the semifinals.

World Tennis League (United Arab Emirates) from December 19 to 24 is the most innovative and innovative. Four teams of five members each (combining men and women) that will measure each other to determine which two teams are better classified. These will play the grand final already on the 24th, in the middle of Christmas Eve. With live music between matches, in what is intended to be a show that goes beyond sport, and the presence of tennis players away from the activity.

The teams?

Team Eagles: Nick Kyrgios, Bianca Andreescu, Andreas Seppi, Caroline Garcia, and Rohan Bopanna.
Team Kites: Iga Swiatek, Felix Auger-Aliassime, Eugenie Bouchard, Holger Rune and Sania Mirza.
Team Hawks: Anett Kontaveit, Alexander Zverev, Dominic Thiem and Elena Rybakina.
Team Falcons: Paula Badosa, Novak Djokovic, Grigor Dimitrov and Aryna Sabalenka.

Also, close to “home” will be the argentinian interclubs which starts this first day of the month and will be played with the traditional local and visitor format. The first two classified in each zone, both in ladies and gentlemen, will advance to the quarterfinals, which will begin on December 6. Present will be the brothers Francisco and Juan Manuel Cerúndolo, tthree Davis Cup champions (Leonardo Mayer, Guido Pella and Federico Delbonis), Lourdes Carlé, Sebastián Báez, Facundo Bagnis and Nadia Podoroska, among many others.

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