Thursday, February 19, 2009

It's Ok, He's Used To The Heat

Someone in the UAE must read this blog because Andy Ram has been granted a visa to play in Dubai in next week's tennis tournament after-all.

Good for the ATP for putting enough pressure on the organizers to get this done.
In recent days, people such as Bille Jean King and Serena Williams had all come to the defense of Ram and Shahar Pe'er (who was denied entry for her tournament) and there was talk of Dubai losing their very lucrative tournament in the future.

The Tennis Channel had already said they would refuse to air the women's tourney, costing Dubai an unknown amount of money from ad revenue.

It seems that pressure has paid off.

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