By means of Abdellatif Sharaa
KUWAIT: The Arab Tennis Federation Common Meeting elected Sheikh Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Abdallah Al-Sabah as President of ATF for its subsequent time period 2022-2026 all over its assembly held in Kuwait. Additionally Kuwait’s candidate for Secretary Common Faleh Al-Otaibi was once additionally elected. Dr Salma Mouelhi (from Tunisia) was once picked as Vice-President for Africa and Ayman Azmi Vice-President from Egypt. Raymond Salem (Lebanon) was once elected Vice President for Asia.
5 applicants for ATF board had been elected; Ishaq Ismail (Algeria), Khalid Naffaa (Jordan), Dr Maha Jarad (Palestine), Khalid Talaat (Sudan) and Nasser Al-Marzouqi (UAE). The Common Meeting assembly had a file attendance from 18 Arab nations. They come with; Saudi Arabia, UAE, Bahrain, Qatar, Oman, Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Tunis, Morocco, Algeria, Jordan, Iraq, Sudan, Somalia, Yemen, Palestine, along with host nation Kuwait.
Sheikh Ahmad Al-Jaber welcomed the attendees. He mentioned ATF is making a brand new transfer with the reinforce of all member federations, and insisted that Arab Tennis game calls for extra consideration and fervour on its construction. He requested participants to concentrate on the elemental of the sport and arrange extra tournaments, along with making ready techniques for the improvement of the sports activities via coordination with the global and continental federation.
Al-Jaber was once proud and happy with the fulfillment of Tunisian participant Ons Jabeur, who reached the rank of Global Quantity 2 and was once the runner up at Wimbledon. This was once the primary and maximum necessary Arab fulfillment in historical past. “Right here comes your position to reinforce and exert extra efforts in order that we will see our Arab avid gamers succeed in what Ons had accomplished,” Al-Jaber mentioned. He was hoping for extra cooperation to switch “wildcards” to take part in tournaments arranged within the Arab international – including that “our function is to peer extra Arab avid gamers of each genders at the international score lists.”