Oceania Tennis Federation

Oceania Tennis Federation (OTF) is the regional governing body of tennis in Oceania. It was formed as a regional association of International Tennis Federation in 1993 with seven member nations to foster the development of tennis in the Oceania region specially main focus on small island nations (territories/dependencies) and Papua New Guinea as the structure of tennis in both Australia and New Zealand was already well developed. The organisation started with seven members now have twenty one countries in its members list.

Oceania Tennis Federation
Member nations of Oceania Tennis Federation
SportTennis
JurisdictionRegional
Abbreviation(OTF)
Founded1993
AffiliationInternational Tennis Federation
Affiliation date1993
PresidentCyrille MAINGUY (Vanuatu)[1]
Board membersBruce Osborne (Australia), Davina Hosking (Cook Islands), Torgun Smith (Guam), Florence Wasko (American Samoa), Barbara Stubbings (Papua New Guinea), Vicky Reid (Australia), Terri-Ann Scorer (New Zealand), Gary Purcell (ITF Development Officer – Pacific Oceania)[1]
CEODavid Smith (New Zealand) & Richard Breen (Fiji))[1]
Sponsor[2]
Official website
www.oceaniatennis.com

Member Nations

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Oceania Tennis Federation has 20 full-time member nations and one New Caledonia associate member. This is an alphabetically ordered list of full members of OTF:[3]

Country Association Headquarter
  American Samoa American Samoa Tennis Association Pago Pago
  Australia Tennis Australia Melbourne
  Cook Islands Cook Islands Tennis Rarotonga
  Fiji Fiji Tennis Association Lautoka
  Guam Guam National Tennis Federation Agana
  Kiribati Kiribati Tennis Association Tarawa
  Federated States of Micronesia Micronesia Tennis Association Pohnpei
  Nauru Nauru Tennis Association Nauru
  New Caledonia Ligue Caledonienne de Tennis (Associate member's) Nouméa
  New Zealand Tennis New Zealand Auckland
  Norfolk Island Norfolk Islands Tennis Association Kingston
  Northern Mariana Islands Northern Mariana Islands Tennis Association Saipan
  Palau Palau Tennis Federation Koror
  Papua New Guinea Papua New Guinea Lawn Tennis Association Port Moresby
  Samoa Samoa Tennis Association Apia
  Solomon Islands Solomon Islands Tennis Association Honiara
  Tahiti Tahitian Tennis Federation Papeete
  Tonga Tonga Tennis Association Nuku Alofa
  Tuvalu Tuvalu Tennis Association Funafuti
  Vanuatu Vanuatu Tennis Federation Port Vila

ANZ Schools plan

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In 1994 OTF President Geoff Pollard initiated a program allowing more children to play tennis at school level; OTF player development and marketing consultant Barry McMillan reached to ANZ Banking Group with this scheme for financial support. ANZ group agreed to this deal to sponsor a tennis in schools program in Pacific Island nations.[4]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ a b c "Assemblee Generale OTF 2021". Retrieved March 14, 2020.
  2. ^ "Official Sponsors". Retrieved March 12, 2011.
  3. ^ "Member Nations". Retrieved March 12, 2011.
  4. ^ "ANZ Schools plan". Retrieved March 12, 2011.