{"id":7014,"date":"2023-09-29T03:51:00","date_gmt":"2023-09-28T19:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.oceaniatennis.com\/newsite\/?p=7014"},"modified":"2023-09-29T03:56:07","modified_gmt":"2023-09-28T19:56:07","slug":"otf-region-strongly-represented-at-the-2023-itf-agm-in-mexico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oceaniatennis.com\/newsite\/latest\/otf-region-strongly-represented-at-the-2023-itf-agm-in-mexico\/","title":{"rendered":"OTF Region Strongly Represented at the 2023 ITF AGM in Mexico"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>11 OTF Members attended the 2023 ITF AGM in Cancun, Mexico from Thursday 21st September-Sunday 24th September. This AGM also saw an election for the ITF President and also the ITF Board of Directors. The 11 attending from the OTF Region were:<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul>\n<li>Richard Breen (OTF Joint EO)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Bobby Cruz (Northern Mariana Islands)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Davina Hosking-Ashford (Cook Islands)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Julie Paterson (New Zealand)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Jacquie Mangan (Australia)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Vicki Reid (Australia)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Tara Steffy-Perez (Guam)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Terri-Ann Scorer (New Zealand)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>David Smith (OTF-Joint EO)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Torgun Smith (Guam)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Cyrille Mainguy (Vanuatu)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>During the AGM, there was an election for the President of the ITF who will serve a 4-year term from 2023-2027.<br>Incumbent President, David Haggerty, received 72.94% of the votes and was re-elected. There were 436 votes cast giving a required majority of 219 votes. Haggerty received 318 votes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Also, there was an election for the ITF Board of Directors for the period of 2023-2027. 28 candidates stood for election to the Board.&nbsp;The 14 elected Board members received the highest number of recorded votes by delegates in a secret ballot, while also meeting the geographical representation criteria specified in the ITF Constitution.&nbsp;The following 14 candidates (with the votes received in brackets) have been elected to the Board for the period 2023-2027:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1.&nbsp;Rafael Westrupp (BRA) &#8211; 344<br>2. Brian Hainline (USA) &#8211; 336&nbsp;<br>3. Lionel Ollinger (FRA) &#8211; 336&nbsp;<br>4. Salma Mouelhi Guizani (TUN)* &#8211; 334&nbsp;<br>5. Bulat Utemuratov (KAZ)* \u2013 333&nbsp;<br>6. Jack Graham (CAN)* &#8211; 330&nbsp;<br>7. Nao Kawatei (JPN)* &#8211; 300&nbsp;<br>8. Philip Mok (HKG) &#8211; 299<br>9. Roger Davids (NED) &#8211; 292&nbsp;<br>10. David Rawlinson (GBR) &#8211; 249&nbsp;<br>11. Dietloff von Arnim (GER) &#8211; 222&nbsp;<br>12.&nbsp;Carlos Bravo (CRC)* &#8211; 218&nbsp;<br>13.&nbsp;\u00c5sa Hedin (SWE) &#8211; 217&nbsp;<br>14.&nbsp;Jordi Tamayo De Winne (ESP) \u2013 213&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The 14 candidates unsuccessful were:<br>15. Dave Miley (IRI) &#8211; 211<br>16. Cengiz Durmus (TUR) &#8211; 203<br>17. Ruth Wipfli Steinegger (SUI) -197<br>18. Suresh Subramaniam (SRI) &#8211; 195<br>19. Ismail El Shafei (EGY) &#8211; 172<br>20. Terri-Ann Scorer (NZL) &#8211; 167<br>21. Nikolina Babic (CRO) &#8211; 163<br>22. Anil Jain (IND) &#8211; 152<br>23. Stefan Tzvetkov (BUL) &#8211; 145<br>24. Vasco Costa (POR) &#8211; 126<br>25. Iroda Tulyaganova (UZB) &#8211; 111<br>26. Csilla Suto (HUN) &#8211; 100<br>27. James Kenani (KEN) &#8211; 95<br>28. Goran Rafajlovski (MKD) &#8211; 44<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During the AGM, Tennis Australia and Tennis New Zealand received respectively Silver and Bronze Awards for their Gender Equality in Tennis Reward and Recognition Programmes<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-2 is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" data-id=\"7017\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.oceaniatennis.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/e09c346b-9eda-4593-aa82-92f4b84aa496.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7017\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.oceaniatennis.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/e09c346b-9eda-4593-aa82-92f4b84aa496.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.oceaniatennis.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/e09c346b-9eda-4593-aa82-92f4b84aa496-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.oceaniatennis.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/e09c346b-9eda-4593-aa82-92f4b84aa496-100x133.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.oceaniatennis.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/e09c346b-9eda-4593-aa82-92f4b84aa496-150x200.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.oceaniatennis.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/e09c346b-9eda-4593-aa82-92f4b84aa496-200x267.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.oceaniatennis.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/e09c346b-9eda-4593-aa82-92f4b84aa496-300x400.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.oceaniatennis.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/e09c346b-9eda-4593-aa82-92f4b84aa496-450x600.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-4 is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" data-id=\"7021\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.oceaniatennis.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/IMG_7578.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7021\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.oceaniatennis.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/IMG_7578.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.oceaniatennis.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/IMG_7578-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.oceaniatennis.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/IMG_7578-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.oceaniatennis.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/IMG_7578-100x75.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.oceaniatennis.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/IMG_7578-150x113.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.oceaniatennis.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/IMG_7578-200x150.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.oceaniatennis.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/IMG_7578-450x338.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.oceaniatennis.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/IMG_7578-600x450.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"576\" data-id=\"7020\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.oceaniatennis.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/IMG_7541-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7020\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.oceaniatennis.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/IMG_7541-1.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.oceaniatennis.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/IMG_7541-1-300x270.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.oceaniatennis.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/IMG_7541-1-100x90.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.oceaniatennis.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/IMG_7541-1-150x135.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.oceaniatennis.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/IMG_7541-1-200x180.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.oceaniatennis.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/IMG_7541-1-450x405.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.oceaniatennis.com\/newsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/IMG_7541-1-600x540.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>11 OTF Members attended the 2023 ITF AGM in Cancun, Mexico from Thursday 21st September-Sunday 24th September. This AGM also saw an election for the ITF President and also the ITF Board of Directors. The 11 attending from the OTF &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oceaniatennis.com\/newsite\/latest\/otf-region-strongly-represented-at-the-2023-itf-agm-in-mexico\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">OTF Region Strongly Represented at the 2023 ITF AGM in Mexico<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oceaniatennis.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7014"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oceaniatennis.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oceaniatennis.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceaniatennis.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceaniatennis.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7014"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceaniatennis.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7014\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7025,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceaniatennis.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7014\/revisions\/7025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oceaniatennis.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceaniatennis.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oceaniatennis.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}