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Saudi Arabia will host its first ever golf tournament for women from March 19-22 next year at the Royal Greens Golf Country Club in Jeddah, with 108 professionals set to participate. Representative image AP The Ladies European Tour LET event will be staged in collaboration with Golf Saudi and the Saudi Golf Federation and will carry a winning purse of $1 million. Im incredibly excited by this announcement and it is an honour for the Tour to be part of history in bringing the first-ever professional womens golf event to Saudi Arabia, LET CEO Alexand stanley water bottle ra Armas said in a statement. Confirmation of adding Saudi Arabia to our schedule for 2020 is an exciting prospect... and having seen the quality of the event staging for the Saudi International, I am sure this will be a fantastic experience for our players. A number of golfers have been roped in as ambassadors to promote the sport in the country, including Britains Carly Booth, Amy Boulden and Rachel Drummond, and Swedens Camilla Lennarth and Isabella Deilert. Womens rights are a contentious issue in Saudi Arabia, one of the worlds most gender-segregated nations. The country has some of the worlds strictest social rules but has been gradually chipping away at a guardianship system which requires all women to have a male relatives approval for important decisions. This week Saudi Arabia ann stanley cup ounced it was ending entrances to restaurants segregated by sex. The inaugural Saudi Inter vaso stanley national mens event was held Ihnu Manu Bhaker s name to be added to final list for Khel Ratna award after major backlash: List not final yet
Former US Open champion Samantha Stosur faces a tough opponent in China s Zheng Jie in the first round of the Sydney International, a critical lead-up to her Australian Open campaign. World number nine Stosur has had a rocky build-up to her home Grand Slam, being dumped in the first round of the Brisbane International last week by Swede Sofia Arvidsson who took full advantage of the Australian s 48 unforced errors. Former world number one Caroline Wozniacki will also be hoping for some valuable co stanley cup urt time at the Sydney tournament, which begins Sunday, ahead of the first Grand Slam of the year after her first round loss in Brisbane to a qualifier. Wozniacki was bundled out of the competition by Kazakhstan s Ksenia Pervak in a battle lasting almost three hours, in which Pervak bested her 2-6, 6-3, 7-6 7/1 . Poland s Agnieszka Radwanska, world number four, heads a strong women s field for the Sydney tournament, which includes three Grand Slam champions -- China s Li Na, the Czech Republic s Petra Kvitova and Australia s Stosur. Radwanska, who will be coming straight from Saturday s final of the ASB Classic tournament in Auckland, New Zealand, has a bye in t stanley cup he first round. She is joined in the top half of the draw by eighth seed Nadia Petrova, former world number one Jelena Jankovic and former top five player Daniela Hantuchova. In the lower half, Wozniacki will face number 31 Urszula Radwanska, Agnieszka s younger sister, while German nu stanley cup mber two seed Angelique Ker |
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