Seoul fans snapping up tickets for Federer, Nadal clash

SEOUL, Nov 14 (Reuters) Tennis fans in South Korea are snapping up tickets for next week's exhibition match between world number one Roger Federer and Spanish rival Rafael Nadal.

Organisers said the hardcourt event at Chamsil Gymnasium in southern Seoul on Nov. 21 had attracted huge interest and that thousands of tickets had been booked weeks in advance.

''A total of 4,000 designated and 900 special seats are sold out as of today,'' Lee Seung-hwan, head of the company hosting the event, told Yonhap news agency today.

Tickets for special seats were priced at 130 dollar while reserved seats were going for 85 dollar.

Federer and Nadal, who are currently in Shanghai for the season-ending Masters Cup, would arrive in South Korea on Monday, said Lee.

South Korea previously hosted an exhibition match between Maria Sharapova and Venus Williams in 2005.

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