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 members list.
Member nations
Oceania Tennis Federation has 20 full-time member nations and one New Caledonia associate member. This is an alphabetically ordered list of full members of OTF: Country Association Headquarter American Samoa Tennis Association Pago Pago Tennis Australia Melbourne Cook Islands Tennis Rarotonga Fiji Tennis Association Lautoka Guam National Tennis Federation Agana Kiribati Tennis Association Tarawa Micronesia Tennis Association Pohnpei Nauru Tennis Association Nauru Ligue Caledonienne de Tennis (Associate member's) Nouméa Tennis New Zealand Auckland Norfolk Islands Tennis Association Kingston Northern Mariana Islands Tennis Association Saipan Palau Tennis Federation Koror Papua New Guinea Lawn Tennis Association Port Moresby Samoa Tennis Association Apia Solomon Islands Tennis Association Honiara Tahitian Tennis Federation Papeete Tonga Tennis Association Nuku Alofa Tuvalu Tennis Association Funafuti 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.
See also
Pacific Oceania Billie Jean King Cup team Pacific Oceania Davis Cup team
References