OREANDA-NEWS. October 14, 2010. The traditional press conference preceding the "Kremlin Cup" international tennis tournament was held at the Olympic sports complex and was attended by Alexey Sytnikov, Vice-President of the Bank of Moscow.

The "Kremlin Cup" is an annual professional tennis tournament including both men’s and women’s matches. The women’s "Kremlin Cup" is included in the Premier 600 category of the Sony Ericsson WTA Tour calendar and the men’s tournament is included in the АТР 250 category of the ATP World Tour calendar.

The "Kremlin Cup - 2010" is to be held at the Olympic sports complex from 16 through 24 October 2010. The total prize fund of the tournament this year amounts to 2 080 500 US dollars, which will be provided entirely by the Bank of Moscow.

The following tennis players have confirmed that they will be participating in the "Kremlin Cup - 2010" women’s tournament: last year’s tournament winner, "Roland Garros - 2010" champion Francesca Schiavone (7th racquet of the SE WTA Tour), global star of the courts, the Serbian tennis-player Elena Yankovich, and leading Russian tennis players Vera Zvonareva, Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova, Maria Kirilenko and others.

The list of participants in the men’s tournament is headed by three-times winner of the "Kremlin Cup" Nikolay Davydenko (6th in the current АТР World Tour global rating). Mikhail Yuzhniy will defend his last year’s title. The foreign participants in the men’s tournament include French tennis star Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, the Cypriot Marcos Baghdatis, the Czech tennis player Radek Stepanek and last year’s finalist, popular with the Moscow spectators, the Serb Janko Tsipsarevic, and others.

The Bank of Moscow has been supporting the "Kremlin Cup" since 1998 and since 2003 has been its General Sponsor.

Support for sports is a key sphere in the Bank of Moscow’s social policy. The Bank of Moscow will continue to support sports projects, allocating funds for holding events and providing sponsorship assistance to sports organisations.