Qatar will yet again be the focal point of the sporting world next month when its hosts the PSA World Championships and the 14th Asian Shooting Club.

From November 8 to 15, Qatar will host the PSA (Professional Squash Association) World Championship which is organised by the Qatar Tennis, Squash and Badminton Federation at Khalifa International Tennis and Squash Complex.

The men’s world champion in squash will win $45,600 from a pot of $335,000, according to PSA.

The championship in Doha is featuring a total of 64 players, including the 56 highest ranked players and eight wild card entrants and is being held for a record fifth time in Doha.

Home-favorite Abdullah Mohammed Al Tamimi will begin his quest for honours against France’s Gregoire Marche, ranked 16 on the ranking computer.

Besides Tamimi, two of his compatriots – Syed Azlan Amjad and Hamad Al Amri, have received wildcard entries for the prestigious event.

Defending champion and World No.1 Ali Farag will be headlining a star cast of the world’s best players.

Considered the most prestigious and lucrative tournament on the PSA Tour calendar, the 2019/20 PSA World Championships will parade the world’s top players including former world champions Mohamed El Shorbagy and Karim Abdel Gawad, Momen, world No.5 Paul Coll, among others, who will be strutting their stuff to the delight of the teeming squash fans in Doha.

Source: The Peninsula Qatar

Another event which will attract some of the elite athletes is the November 7 to 9 FINA Swimming World Cup 2019 Doha.

The Qatar Swimming Association (QSA) organised event will be held at the Hamad Aquatic Centre, Aspire Zone.

The competition will be the last meet of the FINA Swimming World Cup 2019 series, involving seven cities.
Qatari capital, home to the FINA World Swimming Championships in 2014, will also host the FINA World Aquatics Championships in 2023 – the sport’s spotlight event.

With much at stake, the Doha meet – one of the famous stops for swimmers – is expected to attract all the big names of the sport, apart from the leading swimmers of FINA Swimming World Cup 2019 series.

The list of the participants will be finalized soon.

Many Qatari swimmers will also take part in the home event after showing outstanding performances at the 27th GCC Aquatics Championships in Kuwait, where they clinched 34 medals including 17 gold medals, 10 silver medals and 7 bronze

Elsewhere, at the Losail Shooting Range, the focus of the competitors will be on clinching the thirty-eight Olympic quota places will be up for grabs at the championship from November 4 to 13.

The continental tournament organised by Qatar Shooting and Archery Association will serve as the last qualification for Asian shooters for next year’s Tokyo Olympics.

The top three finishers in each of the shotgun, rifle and pistol events of the tournament will gain quota places or outright qualification to the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.

Qatar challenge will revolve around Skeet shooters Rashid Saleh Al Athba and Nasser Saleh Al Attiyah, who is aiming to qualify for a record seventh Olympics.

In Skeet team event, Qatar’s Rashid Saleh Al Athba, Masoud Saleh Al Athba and Abdulaziz Sahel Al Attiyah will be looking forward to put up a good show before home fans in familiar conditions.

In men’s Double Trap, Hamad Al Akhan Al Marri, who won gold in September at the 9th Asian Shotgun Championships in Almaty, Kazakhstan, will be looking for a repeat show on home soil.

The men’s Double Trap team of Hamad Al Akhan Al Marri, Rashed Al Athbi and Masoud Al Athba which also won a gold medal at the same event in Almaty will be eager to touch the Tokyo Games qualification mark.

Another Trap shooter Mohammed Ahmed Al Rumaihi, who received a shot in the arm with his bronze medal at Austria Open in August at Vienna meet, will be keen to prove a point or two at the Asian event.

Besides the men’s shooters a number of women competitors will be aiming to pull off a few surprises and lay grab on the Olympic quota places up for grabs at the 10-day event.