The Community College of Qatar’s (CCQ) female team won first place in the first edition of the Universities Padel Tournament 2023, taking home the gold medal, which concluded their rounds at the University of Doha for Science and Technology courts on the 18th of this month. Over two days of exciting competitions, the CCQ’s female team presented a professional performance in competing with the 6 participating university teams representing several higher education institutions in the state.

The tournament final matches were attended by His Excellency Dr. Ibrahim Bin Saleh Al-Naimi, Undersecretary of the Ministry of Education and Higher Education and president of the Qatar University Sports Federation, and Dr. Salem Al-Naemi, President of the University of Doha for Science and Technology, who handed the first-place gold medal to the winning teams. 

CCQ’s female team won the gold medal being as the first female champion in the first edition of the Universities Padel Tournament, which was endorsed by the Qatar Collegiate Sports Federation (QCSF) and the Qatar Tennis Federation (QTF). CCQ’s female team won against the teams of Lusail University and University of Doha for Science and Technology, with the participation of students Hanan Faraj Al-Sahouti, Atlal Ali Al-Abdelrahman, Hanan Walid Al-Ali, and Al-Anoud Saud Al-Hanzab. The male team included students Thani Ali Al-Hajri, Ahmed Younis Mohammad, Sanad Hani Al-Hadidi, and Ali Ahmed Al-Sayegh.

On this occasion, Ghaith Jaber Alajmi, Acting Activities & Alumni Department Manager at CCQ, stressed the importance of this victory for the CCQ’s female team, which gives all students the motivation to compete in various university sports and therefore attracting new players in the upcoming versions of this tournament, and other tournaments organized by the Qatar Collegiate Sports Federation (QCSF). 

Alajmi added that CCQ embraces many talents in various sports, and this is confirmed by the advanced results achieved by male and female students in the tournaments they participate in, the most recent of which was the Universities Football Tournament and the Universities Padel Tournament. This makes us very optimistic that there are distinguished skills that need to be explored, this is what we seek to achieve at the present time, beside attracting more talents during the next stage, to be always be at the forefront of sports competitions in the upcoming tournaments.

For his part, Abdulrahman Khalid, Supervisor of Student Activities at CCQ, expressed his happiness with CCQ winning first place, praising the great sports and technical performance of the male and female teams during the Universities Padel Tournament. 

Khalid pointed out that despite being the first participation of the college team, the outstanding and professional performance of the payers qualifies them to reach to high ranking positions in the future, promising to maintain first place in the upcoming tournaments, and not to give up this distinguished and high level of sports and technical performance.

For her part, student Al Anoud Al-Hanzab, one of the players in CCQ’s winning team, expressed her happiness at winning first place, along with her classmates, challenging the difficulties they faced at the beginning, especially since it was the first tournament in which they participated, and the feelings of awe and enthusiasm it included, which resulted in a well-deserved victory with advanced results, in two conclusive matches with a score of 6-0 against Lusail University, and with a score of 6-2 against University of Doha for Science and Technology, while expressing her willingness to participate in the college team in upcoming tournaments.

Student and player Hanan Al-Sahouti added that the challenge was great against the teams participating in the tournament. She added, However, that did not intimidate them as a team, but rather increased our determination to achieve victory, especially since it is her first experience with the college, noting that she had previously participated in regional and Arab tournaments with the Qatar Tennis Federation and squash, which made her employ this experience in achieving victory and providing support to her teammates, adding that there is a need to develop the sports skills of the college’s students  through training and follow-up.