ISLAMABAD:
The World Tennis Girls’s Championship 2026 will start on the PTF Tennis Complicated in Islamabad on Tuesday, with gamers from 17 nations set to compete within the $15,000 occasion.
The championship, which runs from October 6, options rivals from France, China, Russia, Denmark, Mexico, Uzbekistan, South Africa, the Netherlands, South Korea, Nepal, Japan, Hong Kong, Turkey, Czech Republic, Germany, Thailand and Pakistan.
France’s Astrid Cirotte, ranked 624th on this planet, is the event’s prime seed.
Pakistan’s main gamers embody Ushna Suhail, Mahin Aftab Qureshi, Meheq Khokhar, Romaisa Malik and Hajra Sohail.
The principle draw matches are scheduled to start at 10 am on Tuesday, with the event offering native gamers a chance to compete towards worldwide opposition and earn WTA rating factors.
Pakistan Tennis Federation’s (PTF) president Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi and secretary normal Col Zia Uddin Tufail prolonged their greatest needs to the taking part gamers and welcomed the worldwide rivals to Pakistan.
Qureshi stated the federation was dedicated to growing girls’s tennis and was offering Pakistani gamers with alternatives to compete in worldwide girls’s tournaments on residence soil.
“These occasions will allow native gamers to compete towards worldwide opposition, achieve beneficial expertise, win matches and earn vital WTA rating factors,” he stated.
Tufail stated back-to-back girls’s championships in Islamabad would give Pakistani gamers beneficial worldwide publicity whereas serving to them enhance their rankings and compete on the skilled stage..
The ladies’s singles competitors will function a 32-player essential draw, whereas the doubles occasion has 16 groups. The doubles draw contains two Pakistani pairings within the opening spherical, with Finnigan and Romisa Malik going through Mahin Qureshi and Ushna Suhail in an all-Pakistani contest.
Meheq Khokhar, partnering Anna Simkina, will face third seeds Jeong Moon and Kamonwan Yodpetch.