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Funds found for ITF circuit

Sports Reporter
The first of the four legs of the 1992 ITF men’s satellite circuit tennis champ! onshtps for Bang ladesh Pakistan will be held from October 5 to II al the Rajshahl Tennis Complex
One hundred and nineteen players of 20 countries includ Ing hosts Bangladesh have registered their names for the Bangladesh Pakistan circuit tennis competition.
Initially 140 players had registered their names for the
meet bul 21 of them cancelled their entries for various sea
son*
Defending champion Laur ence Tlekmxnn of Italy, second-seed Zeeshan All of India, third seed Sean Cole of Great Britain along with an other 17 top-seeded player* will directly play In the final draw of 32 players
Four wild card bertha have been reserved for the hosts, which mean* that four Bangladeshi player* nominated by the hosts will qualify directly for the 32-player final* while the rest eight local play ers will have to come through the qualifying competition Immediately preceding the main meet
Addressing the press at a local hotel yesterday. Zafar Imam. President of the Rajshahl Tennis Complex
(RTC), organiser* of the first leg *aid that Hke the inaugural meet last year. Bangladesh Tobacco Company (BTC), whkh ha* this Mme provided Taka three lakhs, will sponsor the meet and hence the tournament would be named the Gold Leaf ITF men s satellite circuit tennis championship*
Apart from the money received from the BTC. which will also sponsor the second leg to be held from October 12 to 18 at the Ramna Tennis Complex In Dhaka, the RTC has also received Taka 50.000
from the Ministry of Youth and Sports as a special grant. The estimated budget for the meet Is Taka 4.87.000.
Tracing the background. Zafar Imam, who la alao a Deputy Secretary General of the Bangladeah Olympic Asaoclation (BOA), aald that the fate of the tournament was very much In doubt for lack of funds. He thanked the State Minister for Youth and Sports Sadek Hossain Khoka for hl* timely intervention In this connection.
However. Zatu Imam criticised the Bangladesh Tennis Federation (BTF) for thetr al leged non-coopcration with the RTC The BTF. which had reportedly promlaed a grant of Taka 50,000 during the first circuit tennis last November, had not yet given the sum. Imam regretted.
Imam was alao critical of the BTF secretary for not at tending yesterday's press con ference.
Giving the details the see retary of the Rajshahl Tennis Complex. Mushtaq Ahmed said that the singles champion will earn 21 ITF points while the runner-up will get 15 points and the two semifinalists 10 points each.
The champion pair in the doubles will earn 15 points each and the runners up pair 10 points each
All the players of the main
draw will receive cash awards for which the ITF has allotted a lum of 25.000 dollars for the C,r%*e singles champion of j each leg will receive US dol lars 812.50 and the doubles champions will get US 393.75 dollar* The single* runner up and doubles runners up will gel US dollar* 206 25 re.pec lively
Ptter Malik of India will be the referee* supervisor while Lawrence D Walsh of Holland will be the chair umpire In the tourney. Mushtaq said
The third and the fourtn kgs will be held in lai ho re and Karachi In Paklatan later next month. The concluding leg In . Karachi will be known at the “WrleW Service, man ager of the BTC Jahangir Kabir also answered queries from the journalists.