Oscar Moraing wins Qatar Men's ITF World Tennis Tour

Doha: Germany's Oscar Moraing claimed the title of 1st Qatar Men's ITF World Tennis Tour organized by the Qatar Tennis Federation (QTF) at the Khalifa International Tennis and Squash Complex. In the final match of singles event held on Sunday, Oscar Moraing defeated Great Britain's Ryan James Storrie of 7-5 6-3. In doubles event, Great Britain's Julian Cash teamed up with Denmark's Christian Sigsgaard to beat India's Saketh Myneni and Finland's Patrik Niklas-Salminen 6-4 6-4 in final match and claim the title. The medal ceremony was attended by the QTF Secretary General Tareq Zainal and Tournament Director Saad Al Mohannadi. Zainal congratulated the winners and stressed that the tournament featured a very thrilling competition among the participating players. "The federation is committed to organize such type of tournaments to provide the Qatari players with the opportunity to develop their levels by competing with other highly-ranked players" he said. The ITF Men's World Tennis Tour serves as the entry level for professional tennis as the results of ITF tournaments are incorporated into the ATP Ranking, which enables professionals to progress to the ATP Challenger Tour and, ultimately, the ATP Tour.

Qatar lose to Portugal in European Qualifiers

 ALGARVE, Portugal: Global football star Cristiano Ronaldo scored as Portugal beat Qatar 3-0 at Algarve Stadium on Saturday. Now playing for Manchester United, Ronaldo clipped one into the net following a defensive error from Bassam Al Rawi in the 37th minute. Jose Fonte doubled the lead in the 48th minute while Andre Silva (90th minute) added the third. Qatar now face the Republic of Ireland in their next 2022 World Cup, European Zone, qualifying match on Tuesday. Qatar players return to Doha on Wednesday, and national team players resume playing matches in the QNB Stars League.

Team Qatar conclude training to face Portugal in World Cup European qualifiers on Saturday

FARO - The Qatar national football team  have concluded an impressive  training camp in the Portuguese city of Faro on Friday ahead of their game against Portugal in  FIFA World Cup 2022 European Zone games on Saturday. Qatar are playing as a guest team in Group A of the European qualifiers and their matches are considered as friendlies. The Asian champions will face Portugal in Faro on October 9 and Ireland on October 12 in Dublin. The coaching staff under Felix Sanchez will seek a strong show from the team against tough opponents. Qatar had lost to Portugal 1-3 in the first leg while they drew 1-1 with the Republic of Ireland. Qatar squad: Meshaal Barsham, Saad Al-Sheeb, Akram Afif, Hassan Al-Haydos, Muhammad Waad, Musab Khader, Pedro Miguel, Tarik Salman, Abdul Karim Hassan, Youssef Abdurisag and Ali Asad (Al Sadd). Salah Zakaria, Bassam Al-Rawi, Assim Madibo, Al-Moez Ali, Karim Boudiaf, Mohamed Muntari, Abdullah AbdelSalam (Al-Duhail) Ahmed Alaa , Homam Al-Amin, Youssef Hassan (Al-Gharafa) Abdullah Marafie and Ahmed Fathi (Al-Arabi) Abdel-Aziz Hatem (Al-Rayyan) Khaled Munir (Al-Wakra) Ahmed Moeen (Qatar SC).  

Team Qatar to participate in GCC Elite Shooting Championship

Doha: Qatar's national shooting team will participate in GCC Elite Shooting Championship to begin in United Arab Emirates on Friday. Two-day championship is organized by the GCC organizing committee (in zoom technology) with participation of some elite shooters from Qatar, Oman, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and United Arab Emirates. The event comes in light of the efforts to develop shooting at the GCC nations. Nawal Al Sulaiti, Member of Qatar's national shooting teams committee stressed that the Qatari shooters are excited to participate in this event to do their nation proud.

QOC Secretary General inaugurates IPC Athletics World Championships Exhibition

HE Jassim bin Rashid Al Buenain, Secretary General of the Qatar Olympic Committee (QOC) inaugurated IPC Athletics World Championships Exhibition that celebrates the event that was held in 2015 in Doha, Qatar. The exhibition is at the headquarters of the Qatar Paralympic Committee, comes in honor of all those who contributed to the event's success. It brings together photos for the opening and closing ceremonies, referees and volunteers' kits and the event's merchandise and sports equipment. It's worth mentioning that it was the first ever IPC Athletics World Championships held in the Middle East from October 21-31, 2015, with participation of 1226 athletes from 93 countries. The exhibition aims to shed light on all landmark achievements being made by team Qatar champions at both regionally and on Olympic levels, furthermore to display the Qatar’s effort in hosting the event that brought together 1226 athletes from 93 countries. On this occasion, the QPC executive director, Mr. Ameer Al Mulla welcomed H.E Secretary General along with team Qatar stars  and their technical and administrative staff.  Mr. Al Meer appreciated the centre stage role of the QOC under the presidency of H.E Sheikh Joaan bin Hamad Al Thani in supporting the sports for players special needs in the country, such support leading to a lot of achievements and brought top honorable medals to the nation at both regionally and on Olympic levels. He noted that the QPC will keep up producing top champions to compete in different sport events. On his behalf, H.E QOC Secretary General, Jassim bin Rashid Al Buenain has lauded the full support delivered by all institutions, sectors and sport facilities in the country to serve the QPC athletes. He also applauded the most recent achievements of Qatar’s Abdulrahman Abdulqader who claimed the bronze medal of men’s F34 shot put in Tokyo.  QOC Secretary General toured all wings and the sections of the exhibition and had a brief on all the medals, kits, equipment, tools, sport facilities and sport dresses of team Qatar members along with all QPC’s technical devices, medical clinic and gyms.   In statement on Thursday, Mr. Ameer Al Mulla said that "we are truly happy with the visit of the QOC Secretary General, our initiative of this exhibition reflects a real desire of QPC to document all achievements, records and figures being made at that memorable event hosted by Doha in 2015. I really appreciate the QOC’s center stage role that made our technical and administrative effort during the event impressive and possible, so that our unparalleled success in the event will act as a lasting legacy for generation to come”.     

Team Qatar to take on Portugal in World Cup European qualifiers

Faro: The Qatar national football team began their training camp on Monday in the Portuguese city of Faro in preparation for the FIFA World Cup 2022 European Zone games against Portugal and the Republic of Ireland. Qatar are playing as a guest team in Group A of the European qualifiers and their matches are considered as friendlies. The Asian champions will face Portugal in Faro on October 9 and Ireland on October 12 in Dublin. The coaching staff under Felix Sanchez will seek a strong show from the team against tough opponents. Qatar had lost to Portugal 1-3 in the first leg while they drew 1-1 with the Republic of Ireland. Qatar squad: Meshaal Barsham, Saad Al-Sheeb, Akram Afif, Hassan Al-Haydos, Muhammad Waad, Musab Khader, Pedro Miguel, Tarik Salman, Abdul Karim Hassan, Youssef Abdurisag and Ali Asad (Al Sadd). Salah Zakaria, Bassam Al-Rawi, Assim Madibo, Al-Moez Ali, Karim Boudiaf, Mohamed Muntari, Abdullah AbdelSalam (Al-Duhail) Ahmed Alaa , Homam Al-Amin, Youssef Hassan (Al-Gharafa) Abdullah Marafie and Ahmed Fathi (Al-Arabi) Abdel-Aziz Hatem (Al-Rayyan) Khaled Munir (Al-Wakra) Ahmed Moeen (Qatar SC).