A media conference was held today to launch the Junior Tennis initiative, their new logo and a new sponsorship worth 4 million rupees from Perera and Sons.
Perera and Sons have come forward to sponsor the Junior Tennis initiative for the next 3 years to help improve the quality of tennis in the country by letting children get involved at a young age in the game and allowing them to play in their own category which is Under 10.
This initiative was also sponsored by Dunlop as they contributed by making special lightweight rackets and colourful tennis balls which the youngsters would find appealing. SLTA has also created smaller courts and nets to suit the age category to allow the children to truly enjoy the sport. These changes were done with the hopes of kindling a passion for tennis at a very early age.
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The Junior Tennis initiative has also been very active outside of Colombo developing Tennis in other towns such as Jaffna, Kandy, Bandaragama and Ratnapura etc. by building new courts and by providing equipment to those who can’t afford it.
The president of the Sri Lanka Tennis Association Mr. Iqbal Bin Issack mentioned how he was quite pleased with the progress the Junior Tennis initiative has had since its inception in 1998 and hoped it would only get better as they revealed a new logo for the initiative by the name “School Tennis”.
The evening ended on a high as the chairman of the outstation committee announced that the International Tennis Federation increased the funds provided to Sri Lanka from $3000 to $5000 due to the outstanding progress we have had in the past few years.
