The National: The Papua New Guinea Tennis Federation received a timely sponsorship of K10,000 from Lamana Hotel to support its junior tennis players participating in the Pacific Oceania Junior championships in Lautoka, Fiji, next week.
The PNG team of five players will leave on Sunday.
They will be joined by another PNG duo, Marcia Tere-Apisah and Lorish Puluspene, who are based in Lautoka, Fiji.
The local players are Celestine Stapleton, Natash Nakandaul, Robin Morove, John Martin Kaiulo and Mathew Stubbings.
Event organiser Barbara Stubbings said PNG had qualified to send seven players for International Tennis Federation (ITF) Pacific Oceania Junior championships (POJC) at the Goodman Fielder RTC in Fiji starting next Monday till Friday.
They will also be participating at the Oceania Plate from Aug 2-6.
It is the largest group of PNG players to qualify for the Pacific Oceania Junior Championships.
Stubbings thanked Lamana Hotel for the funds which would go to meeting travel expenses and participating costs for the five junior elites.
“PNG Tennis junior development would like to express their sincere gratitutde to Lamana Hotel general manager Yiannis Nicolaou for their continued support to tennis, especially junior tennis in PNG,” she said.
Lamana Development Ltd project manager Jackson Zabala, who was accompanied by his assistant Civan Koiri, said the company was pleased to assist the PNG Tennis Federation.
The sponsorship is a follow-up to a commitment made by late Sir George Constantinou to support PNG Tennis Federation and Lamana Hotel has been supporting tennis for the past two decades.
By Henry Morabang
The National
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