True to its commitment to the tennis community in the western region, ALBAIK Food Systems Co. Ltd. has once again partnered with Association of Tennis Clubs in Jeddah (Astec) to stage the year’s closing tennis tournament dubbed 5th ALBAIK Tennis Challenge 2013.

The event starts today with the opening ceremony at the Al-Bilad Hotel in Jeddah Corniche, and is scheduled to run until Nov. 22.

Astec has had successes with its 25 previously organized tournaments, and this will be its 26th event and the fifth consecutive year to collaborate and partner with ALBAIK to bring this quality tennis competition.

This year the tournament has attracted close to 50 team entries in the Men’s Division to vie for the championships in categories C, B2, LMX, MMX and HMX. Team composition will be nine players each playing four doubles sets of pro-eight scoring format and with the ninth player being the non-playing reserve for that match. The tournament will be governed by the Astec Ground Rules which will be distributed to all participating teams while the players’ classification will be based on the Astec Tennis Players Classification List of 2013. For other matters not covered by the Ground Rules the ITF Rules will be applied.

To highlight the opening day ceremony is the parade of the participating teams with door prizes to be raffled off to lucky spectators and participants. A bonus treat will be the doubles exhibition match to be played between the pair of Aris Feliciano and Dilson Autentico and the duo of Cecil Lllavares and Mohammad Salahuddin.

Organized by Association of Tennis Clubs in Jeddah (Astec) under the helm of its chairman Francis Idjao Jr. and Tournament Director Tonton Pana, this team tennis tournament to be played at the Al-Bilad Hotel and Sheraton Hotel tennis courts is presented in partnership with ALBAIK Food Systems Co. Ltd. represented by Bassam Al-Seyofi (PR manager), Mahmoud Al-Jaber (marketing coordinator) and Ed Cabiedes (branch manager) and is supported by Deltaz Marketing (Racquet Shop) courtesy of Tony Kassis, Maher Tebakhi and Amin Malik. Also providing support is Sky Freight Forwarders through Sales Manager Rene Quiambao.