CANCUN, Mexico (Sept. 24) — David Haggerty from the U.S. was re-elected as president of the Worldwide Tennis Federation on the 2023 ITF Annual Basic Assembly in Cancun, Mexico on Sept. 24, receiving 73 p.c of the votes. He’ll serve a four-year time period from 2023-2027.
There have been 436 votes solid giving a required majority of 219 votes. Haggerty obtained 318 votes.
Haggerty mentioned: “I’d prefer to thank the ITF membership for putting their religion in me for an additional time period. Our long-term sustainable progress technique, ITF 2024, has resulted within the ITF’s funding for tennis improvement practically doubling in only a few years since its introduction.
“I very a lot stay up for working alongside our Govt and Board to evaluation and refresh our technique for this subsequent part. We are going to guarantee we place the ITF’s competitions on a robust footing and proceed to gas funding within the world improvement of our sport to ship the ITF’s mission of tennis for future generations.”
The ITF additionally introduced the outcomes of the elections for the ITF Board of Administrators. The next 14 candidates have been elected to the Board for the interval 2023-2027:
1. Rafael Westrupp (BRA) – 344
2. Brian Hainline (USA) – 336
3. Lionel Ollinger (FRA) – 336
4. Salma Mouelhi Guizani (TUN)* – 334
5. Bulat Utemuratov (KAZ)* – 333
6. Jack Graham (CAN)* – 330
7. Nao Kawatei (JPN)* – 300
8. Philip Mok (HKG) – 299
9. Roger Davids (NED) – 292
10. David Rawlinson (GBR) – 249
11. Dietloff von Arnim (GER) – 222
12. Carlos Bravo (CRC)* – 218
13. Åsa Hedin (SWE) – 217
14. Jordi Tamayo De Winne (ESP) – 213
* Returning member
NB. Numbers characterize numbers of votes
28 candidates stood for election to the Board. The 14 elected Board members obtained the best variety of recorded votes by delegates in a secret poll, whereas additionally assembly the geographical illustration standards specified within the ITF Structure.
In alignment with the objectives of Benefit All, the ITF’s programme for equality and inclusion, to extend the variety of girls represented on the highest ranges of management, seven (7) girls stood for Board election in 2023 in comparison with 4 (4) in 2019; two (2) girls had been elected.
The voting process for the Presidential and Board elections has been authorised and overseen by the Election Panel (a sub-group of the impartial Ethics Fee), with digital voting procedures applied for the primary time and offered by Lumi World (an knowledgeable supplier of digital voting methods for world companies and worldwide sporting organisations). Additional info relating to ITF elections is out there on ITFtennis.com
