Lawn Tennis Association of Malawi (LTAM) has told senior players to forget about taking part in international tournaments if they fail to source their own funding.<\/p>\n
LTAM General Secretary, Stan Kaunda, made the remarks following a request from senior players to consider funding their participation in international competitions outside the country.<\/p>\n
\u201cAll over the world, senior players source their own sponsorship to travel and compete in international competitions. Similarly, our senior players must source funding elsewhere if they want to travel and compete in other countries,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Kaunda said LTAM can only assist the players by backing their sponsorship hunt.<\/p>\n
Nevertheless, Kaunda said this year, the association intends to organise three tournaments for the seniors to keep players fit ahead of the Malawi Open Tennis Championship.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur mandate, currently, is to run local seniors\u2019 tournaments as well as the Malawi Open. In the meantime, we are discussing with three companies to bankroll three seniors\u2019 tournaments to keep our players in shape before the Malawi Open,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Senior player, Ronald Kandulu, blamed LTAM for operating without a vision.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is true indeed that we are supposed to find our own resources for international competitions. However, I feel that the association has no vision because if they had a strategic plan, they should have sorted this issue long time ago. What is the issue of grooming junior players when you cannot provide adequate seniors\u2019 competitions?\u201d he quizzed.<\/p>\n
Kandulu warned that it would take ages for local players to win the men\u2019s section of the Malawi Open.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe rarely compete in the country and we don\u2019t travel to other countries. Under such circumstances, where do you think we will get exposure to battle against the best? The only time we can win the men\u2019s section of the Malawi Open is when we don\u2019t have serious foreign participants,\u201d he said<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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