Tournament Name: SALEO CUP
Date: 4-11 of June, 2016
Qualification: 4-5 of June
The main grid: 6-11 of June
Finals:10 of June. 14.00. The final doubles
11 of June. 10.00. Finals singles
Venue: Minsk, ul.Zhudro 40, "City Center of Olympic reserve in tennis"
Home matches: 10.00 / free entry
Event Organizer: NGO "Belarusian Tennis Federation"
Courts: 5, open
Covering: "ground"
Participants: Women
Format: Singles, Doubles
Prize money: $ 25,000
Participants: tennis players of Austria, Belarus, Brazil, Greece, Moldova, Norway, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Turkey, Ukraine, France.
About the tournament:
International professional tennis tournaments «Saleo Cup» have become a tradition in the calendar of sports events in our country. Men's and women's tournaments, taking place with the support of "SALEO" LLC - Holding managing company" - it's a real tennis holiday, fair play and colorful battles in the courts of the best sports centers of the capital.
The first women's tournament was held in June 2014 with a prize pool of $ 10 000. Then for the award fought representatives of four countries: Belarus, Russia, Ukraine and France. The best doubles steel Belarusians Pirozhenko Svetlana and Morozova Lydia, and won the top singles French Chloe Paquet. Next tournament is gaining momentum! In June 2015 the fair sex, fighting in the courts "GTSOR tennis", took part in the event of a higher category - $ 25,000! The winner of the tournament became the rising star of Russian tennis Daria Kasatkina, which currently takes place 32 WTA rankings. In the doubles winners were also tennis players of Russia - Valentina Ivakhnenko and Pauline Monova.
It should be noted that thanks to the support of "SALEO" was able to increase the prize fund of the competition and keep it at a high level this year, which will allow the Belarusian tennis players to participate in the "home" tournament, the higher the prize categories, and to win more points for promotion the WTA international ranking.
Every year «Saleo Cup» tournament attracted the attention of fans of the game bright and strong international professional players. Upcoming event promises to be no less exciting, because for the cup will be competing tennis players from 12 countries at once. Below are the names and surnames, as well as an international rating of the top ten future member of the tournament (as 2 of June):
1. Pauline Leikina (Russia, 201 WTA)
2. Anastasia Komardina (Russia, 210 WTA)
3. Victoria Kamenskaya (Serbia, 239 WTA)
4. Arina Sobolenko (Belarus, 261 WTA)
5. Chloe Paquet (France, 264 WTA)
6. Polina Vinogradova (Russia, 280 WTA)
7. Olga Yanchuk (Ukraine, 307 WTA)
8. Dorothea Urich (Serbia, 309 WTA)
9. Elizabeth Yanchuk (Ukraine, 311 WTA)
10. Nadezhda Kichenok (Ukraine, 323 WTA)
A special invitation from the organizers of the tournament in the main draw of the tournament got the Belarusian tennis player Irina Shimanovich (464 WTA), Vera Lapko (646 WTA), Nika Shitkovskaya and Julia Gotovko, but in skills - Alesya Yakubovich, Alexandra Efremova, Vlada Zvereva, Anna Kubareva, Angelina Kalita and Christina Vasina.
Break through the qualifying round in the main part of the competition will try to Svetlana Pirozhenko (530 WTA), Lydia Morozova (623 WTA), Ilona Kremen (653 WTA), Victoria Myn (1009 WTA), Elizabeth Goncharova (1071 WTA), Daria Tchernetsova (1071 WTA ), Catherine Grib, Katerina Pavlenko, Anna Sokol, Christina Skachkova, Katerina Kuzminas, Vera Sokolovskaya, Anita Bazhko, Angelina Novik, Shalimar Talbi, Milena Belyanovich, Catherine Markiewich, Jana Ulyanova and Pauline Smolskaya.
"SALEO" LLC -Holding managing company" includes 3 companies, which employ more than 2 500 people, is the largest in Belarus, a manufacturer and supplier of hydraulic components and accessories, works with manufacturers of agricultural, construction, road construction, forest and other mobile machines and industrial equipment.
The official website of the tournament: www.tennis.by
Links to social networks: https://www.facebook.com/belarustennis, https://twitter.com/belarustennis, https://www.instagram.com/belarustennis/
