Posts Tagged ‘tennis in doha

It’s Qatar Total Open! The yearly tennis tournament which is part of the Sony Ericsson Tour for the ladies will start on February 26 to March 3 at the Khalifa International Tennis Complex. Big name attendees for this year would be Martina Hingis (winner of the first tournament on 2001), Justine Henin-Hardene, Anastasia Myskina (winner [...]

Tennis Lessons

In: Sports

22 Aug 2006

Remember when I wrote about having tennis lessons? It pushed through last Thursday, followed by another one last Saturday. On Thursday, there were three of us, me, my friend and another girl from Morocco. Our tennis instructor taught us the ready position, the forehand, backhand, volley and the service as well. For beginners like me, [...]

Into Tennis

In: Sports

17 Aug 2006

The venue is the tennis courts of Al Ghazal Club. Al Ghazal Club was originally a sports club for Qatar Petroleum junior staff members but since the Falcon Club, its counterpart for senior staff members has closed, even the senior staff employees avail of the Al Ghazal Club. Membership is QR50 per month for the [...]

All Geared Up

In: Sports

17 Aug 2006

Last weekend we’ve decided that my friend and I are going to enroll ourselves into tennis lessons after some convincing from my friend’s friend and our husbands. The first scheduled meeting was Monday, although the formal lessons will only start this Thursday (August 17). So on Sunday, off we went to City Center to look [...]


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