LAHORE - Director General (DG) Sports Board Punjab (SBP) Adnan Arshad Aulakh has said that the Sports Board Punjab (SBP) is going to establish a two-month Summer Tennis Camp here at the Punjab Tennis Academy Bagh-e-Jinnah from June 21.
The DG SBP said the players of 5 to 13 years of age will participate in the camp being organized under the supervision of renowned tennis coach Rashid Malik (Tamgha-e-Imtiaz). “Four more coaches will assist Rashid Malik in the training of young boys and girls. This training activity will definitely help us in finding and grooming young tennis players from grassroots level for the country.”
Aulakh further said that the Sports Board Punjab has already established a Junior Initiative (JIT) Tennis Academy at the NPSC’s state-of-the-art Tennis StadUnitedm for the training and grooming of young tennis players. “Tennis is one of the most popular games in the world. Similarly, Pakistan also has plenty of talented male and female tennis players, which will be supported and groomed well, so that they may win international laurels for Pakistan,” he added.
PLTA Secretary Rashid Malik, who is also a former Davis Cupper, lauded the efforts of DG SBP Adnan Aulakh for the development and promotion of tennis in Punjab and especially thanked him for arranging this 2-month tennis training camp, which will benefit the youth in the long run. “We will try to train and groom the talented youth in a way that they may learn the better techniques and improve and sharpen their skills in the best possible manner and adopt this game as professionals and serve their province and country well and win glories for them at international level,” Malik added.