Oceania Tennis Federation

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Oceania Tennis Federation
Oceania Tennis Federation logo.svg
Member nations of Oceania Tennis Federation
Oceania Tennis Federation members.svg
Sport Tennis
JurisdictionRegional
Abbreviation(OTF)
Founded1993
Affiliation International Tennis Federation
Affiliation date1993
President Cyrille 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]
CEO David Smith (New Zealand) & Richard Breen (Fiji)) [1]
Sponsor [2]
Official website
www.oceaniatennis.com

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.

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Member Nations

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]

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

ANZ Schools plan

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

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Assemblee Generale OTF 2021". Archived from the original on August 18, 2016. Retrieved March 14, 2020.
  2. ↑ "Official Sponsors". Archived from the original on July 14, 2011. Retrieved March 12, 2011.
  3. ↑ "Member Nations" . Retrieved March 12, 2011.
  4. ↑ "ANZ Schools plan" . Retrieved March 12, 2011.
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