19-06-2014 09:00:00
The Confederation of African Tennis (CAT), the
French Tennis Federation (FFT) and Tennis Europe
(TE) represented by their Presidents Tarak Chérif, Jean
Gachassin and Jacques Dupré, and in presence of
Francesco Ricci Bitti ITF President had signed in Paris
on 4th June 2014 a cooperation agreement of which
main objective consists to encourage the development
of Tennis in Africa and in Europe, through the human
resources and the know-ledge & expertise of the FFT in
many areas such as training coaches, staff trainers,
managers and officials & umpires.
The FFT will help its counterparts in the
implementation of partnerships with French training
centers, in order to host trainings for players (boys and
girls) selected by CAT.
The FFT will also provide CAT with its know-ledge
regarding the construction and the maintenance of clay
court tennis courts.
The signature of this agreement which took place at the
Roland Garros Stadium had been also marked by the
attendence of the five CAT Vice Presidents: Mrs Israa
El Sanhoury, Mr. Mohamed Oumar Traoré, Mr. Samuel
Minko Mindong, Mr. Patrick Gichira and Mr. Nelson
Amanze, the CAT General Manager, Mr. Hichem
Riani, a big number of Presidents of African National
Federations that were present at Roland Garros as well
as several French and international press bodies and
medias.