Mousa Shanan Zayed (born 9 March 1994) is a
Qatar
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i
tennis
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player.
Career
Zayed mainly plays on the
futures circuit and has also competed for the
Qatari Davis Cup team since he was 14,
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daviscup.com where he holds a 24–25 record, the second largest number of wins for the country.
Zayed has received wildcards into the main draw of the singles and doubles of the
Qatar Open in both
2013
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and
2014
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.
In 2013 he faced Frenchman Gael Monfils in his opening match, but only won three games in a straight sets loss. At the singles event of the 2014 competition, he faced
grand slam
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champion
Andy Murray
Sir Andrew Barron Murray (born 15 May 1987) is a British professional tennis player from Scotland. He was ranked world No. 1 by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) for 41 weeks, and finished as the year-end No. 1 in 2016. Murray h ...
in his opening match, however, was dominated in a straight sets defeat without winning a single game, suffering the third double bagel loss of his career.
Zayed dropped out of the ATP rankings for the second time in December 2014, after losing his only ranking point.
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1994 births
Living people
Qatari male tennis players
Tennis players at the 2010 Asian Games
Tennis players at the 2014 Asian Games
Asian Games competitors for Qatar