Oceania Tennis Federation

Oceania Tennis Federation (OTF)
Member nations of Oceania Tennis Federation
Sport	Tennis
Area of jurisdiction	Regional
Formation date	1993
Affiliation	International Tennis Federation
Affiliation date	1993
President	Geoff Pollard (Australia)[1]
Chief Exec	Pat O’Rourke (New Zealand)[1]
Secretary	Fenton Coull (Australia)[1]
Other key staff	Waikaremoana So’onalole (Samoa) (Vice-President), Jane Aguon (Guam), Paras Naidu (Fiji), John Shannon (Fiji),Don Turner (New Zealand), Dan O’Connell (ITF Development Officer – Pacific Oceania)[1]
Sponsor	ANZ Banking Group Air Pacific Goodman Fielder International[2]
Official website
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 member's list.

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]

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
Marshall Islands	Marshall Islands Tennis Federation	Majuro
FS Micronesia	Micronesia Tennis Association	Pohnpei
Nauru	Nauru Tennis Association	Nauru
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
Tonga	Tonga Tennis Association	Nuku Alofa
Tuvalu	Tuvalu Tennis Association	Funafuti
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]

References

1. ^ ^{a b c d} "OCEANIA TENNIS FEDERATION - General Meeting, 09". http://www.oceaniatennis.com/otf_updates/otfgmminutes09.pdf. Retrieved March 12, 2011. 
2. ^ "Official Sponsors". http://www.oceaniatennis.com/style/sponsors.php. Retrieved March 12, 2011. 
3. ^ "Member Nations". http://www.oceaniatennis.com/style/names.php. Retrieved March 12, 2011. 
4. ^ "ANZ Schools plan". http://www.oceaniatennis.com/style/anz_sch_prog.php. Retrieved March 12, 2011.