WHAT DOES THE FUTURE HOLD FOR GHANA TENNIS AFTER A HISTORIC ITF CONGRESS?



The Annual General Meeting of the International Tennis Federation (ITF) is now in the books with a lot of ground breaking outcomes delivered without any ambiguities by 155 National Tennis Associations who convened at Lisbon, Portugal under the theme Transforming Tennis to take stock of the global movement, enact major reforms and to choose the leadership of the world body for the next four years.

 After close of polls on Friday 27th September 2019, it was David Haggerty of the USA who was announced elected as the ITF President to serve a four year mandate from 2019 to 2023 haven won 259 votes accounting for 60.5% to that of Anil Khanna, David Miley, and Ivo Kaderka’s 93, 46, 30 accounting for 21.7%, 10.8% and 7% respectively, David Haggerty was full of appreciation to the delegates with an unwavering determination to take tennis to a different level.


Courtesy the Bank of Africa a leading Bank in Ghana and a subsidiary of the Pan African Banking conglomerate Bank of Africa Group, the Ghana Tennis Federation (GTF) was strongly represented by the President of the Federation Mr. Isaac Aboagye Duah and a board member Mr. Kwame Djangba.


From a restructured Davis Cup and Fed Cup to the improvement of the ITF World Tennis Junior Tour to the introduction of the World Tennis Number to provide a universal ranking for all tennis players, David Haggerty has received the blessings of all tennis stakeholders around the world to continue to deliver as the President of ITF, already familiar with the politics of the office he will set off with the implementation of the major reforms from the 2019 AGM which will include but not limited to putting national associations at the center of ITF activities, investing more into junior programs and addressing the challenge of retaining young players after leaving school.


Post a historic ITF 2019 AGM, the big question is, what does the future hold for Ghana Tennis? A national AGM slated for October to elect the President and board members, 6 tennis foundations actively pursuing developmental tennis, a snail pace approach of the private sector and government in investing in Ghana tennis. The ambition of the President of GTF is to transform tennis beyond the capital and major cities, revamp junior tennis and to bring the nation back to its former glory as far as tennis is concern, one can only but be expectant of great things to come and wish him well.


Cedric Dzelu

Executive Director

Hope Performance Tennis Inc. 
cedricdzelu@gmail.com

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