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 member's 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 membersCelia Patrick (New Zealand), Bruce Osborne (Australia), Ernestine Rengiil (Palau), Torgun Smith (Guam), Wilfred Sacault (Tahiti), Darran Wrighton (ITF Development Officer – Pacific Oceania)[1]
CEODavid Smith (New Zealand) & Richard Breen (Fiji))[1]
Sponsor[2]
Official website
www.oceaniatennis.com

Member Nations

Oceania Tennis Federation has 19 full-time member nations and two New Caledonia and Tahiti are the associate members. This is an alphabetically ordered list of full members of OTF:[3]

CountryAssociationHeadquarter
 American SamoaAmerican Samoa Tennis AssociationPago Pago
 AustraliaTennis AustraliaMelbourne
 Cook IslandsCook Islands TennisRarotonga
 FijiFiji Tennis AssociationLautoka
 GuamGuam National Tennis FederationAgana
 KiribatiKiribati Tennis AssociationTarawa
 Federated States of MicronesiaMicronesia Tennis AssociationPohnpei
 New CaledoniaLigue Caledonienne de Tennis (Associate member's)Nouméa
 New ZealandTennis New ZealandAuckland
 Norfolk IslandNorfolk Islands Tennis AssociationKingston
 Northern Mariana IslandsNorthern Mariana Islands Tennis AssociationSaipan
 PalauPalau Tennis FederationKoror
 Papua New GuineaPapua New Guinea Lawn Tennis AssociationPort Moresby
 SamoaSamoa Tennis AssociationApia
 Solomon IslandsSolomon Islands Tennis AssociationHoniara
 TahitiTahitian Tennis FederationPapeete
 TongaTonga Tennis AssociationNuku Alofa
 TuvaluTuvalu Tennis AssociationFunafuti
 VanuatuVanuatu Tennis FederationPort 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]

References
  1. "Assemblee Generale OTF 2013". Retrieved January 18, 2013.
  2. "Official Sponsors". Retrieved March 12, 2011.
  3. "Member Nations". Retrieved March 12, 2011.
  4. "ANZ Schools plan". Retrieved March 12, 2011.
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