El Gouna Wins Sixth Annual Tennis Tournament

After a total of 66 tennis matches over four days, pitting El Gouna versus the visitors from Cairo, Gezira Sporting Club (GSC), El Gouna were able to lift the Martin Cup, thus winning the title for the fifth year. 

For the six years the tournament has been running, GSC won once, in 2018. 

El Gouna has now prevailed five times. 

During this year’s tournament, players were divided into seven categories, each category containing six doubles teams. Three from each side. Doubles were made up of either all men, all women or mixed.

Every match was played as a one set, 9 game contest. In the event of an 8-8 score, a tiebreak was played to decide the winners.

The last day was devoted to finals, with each match comprised of one 12 game set. 

Final Score: El Gouna 35 sets vs Gezira 31 sets. 

Score in games: 561 to Gouna, 475 to Gezira.

A ceremony evoking the memory of Martin Valnicek was conducted after all the matches were played, followed by medals, prizes and cash prizes and the presentation of the Martin Cup to El Gouna. 

Thanks goes to Alexia Schouten, Ayman Azmi from El Gouna, Rafik Barrada, Hany Helmy from GSC for the organisation of the tournament. A big cheer goes out to the ball boys and ball girls from El Gouna International School (EGIS), who took time off from classes. Pictures courtesy of Valeria. Finally, a big thank you to the sponsors : Orascom Development, Commercial International Bank (CIB), Dunlop, AttijaraWafa Bank, Raya, BankABC and Bake Rolls.

All in all, a memorable four days of high spirit, camaraderie and tennis in the warm sunshine!

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