The Bangladesh Tennis Federation was established in 1972 to develop tennis in Bangladesh. It runs a national tennis center with 8 courts and oversees junior development programs. These programs include a junior tennis initiative that is increasing participation, coaching certification workshops, and prize money tournaments. Additionally, the Bangladesh government has funded a large "Root Level Talent Hunting Programme" focused on introducing tennis to new youth players across the country, with the goal of promoting tennis development at the grassroots level.

1. G R O W T H O F T E N N I S I N B A N G L A D E S H
JUNIOR DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME

2. P r e s e n t e d b y -
Mohammad Mahmud Alam
Administrative Officer
Bangladesh Tennis Federation

3. Tennis in Bangladesh
 Bangladesh Tennis Federation established in 1972 immediately after the liberation
war under the leadership of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the father of
the nation.
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Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman

4. Tennis in Bangladesh
 Bangladesh Tennis Federation is situated in National Tennis Complex, Ramna
Green, Dhaka with 3.4 Acre area of land. It has a two steroid pavilion building
with office rooms, conference room, players changing rooms etc. It also has a
general gallery which may accommodate about 1000 spectators at a time. It has
8 tennis courts, one practice wall and a gymnasium.
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Front side of Administrative Building

5. Tennis in Bangladesh
 BTF Executive Committee consist of 27 members including a President who is
nominated by Ministry of Youth & Sports. Now the President of Bangladesh
Tennis Federation is Mr. Md. Shahriar Alam, MP, Hon’ble State Minister, Ministry of
Foreign Affairs. We also has 3 members Advisory pannel.
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Mr. Md. Shahriar Alam, MP,
President
Bangladesh Tennis Federation
BTF has 8 coaches who are evolve in regular training
programme at the National Tennis Centre. We also
have a number of tennis coaches who are working in
different countries including Sri Lanka, China etc. We
also have 2 ITF Level-2 certified tennis coach one of
them in Bangladesh and other one is working in
Canada.

6. Growth of Tennis in Bangladesh
 The growth of specific sports discipline is depends on various issues. Like
infrastructure, number of participants, quality of players, local and international
tournaments, sponsorship, level of coaching, living of coaches, facilities etc.
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 The number of participation in tennis
is increasing day by day through JTI
Programme. Our thanks to Mr. Suresh
Menon, ITF Development Officer –
Asia for his continuous support and
help to run the JTI Programme in
Bangladesh. We also organize coaches
education programme. This year we
have organize a ITF Pre-Level-1
Coaches workshop.

7. Growth of Tennis in Bangladesh
 Some photographs of Coaches workshop.
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8. Growth of Tennis in Bangladesh
 This year we already have organized 3 prize money tournaments and we also have 2
more prize money tournaments which will be held on 23-30 October and in Mid
December 2016. Each of the prize money tournament provide about 2,000 US Dollar
cash prize money We also organized a number of Junior Age group tournaments.
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9. Growth of Tennis in Bangladesh
 Tournaments . . Photographs
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10. Growth of Tennis in Bangladesh
 Tournaments . . Photographs
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11. Growth of Tennis in Bangladesh
 Tournaments & Training Photographs
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12. Growth of Tennis in Bangladesh
 The Ministry of Youth and Sports of the Government of Bangladesh has taken a big
project named “Root Level Talent Hunting Programme” and it includes 31 different
sports discipline through National Sports Council. The Total budget is 18 Million Dollar
which is the top most training budget in sports in Bangladesh history ever.
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 Bangladesh Tennis Federation is
included in this project. We have
received about 41,000 US Dollar to run
the project. We have chalked out 28
different venues to run the
programme. Each venue 5 days
programmes. We targeted school
going children from different district
aged between 8-12 years old. We
already have finished 13 sport where
about 1,000 kids have

13. Growth of Tennis in Bangladesh
 started to play tennis who are fresh beginners. While we were planning to start the
programme we were lucky that Mr. Suresh Menon was in Bangladesh on that time. We
hope by the end of November 2016 we may finish first phase of the programme and
more 1,000 fresh students will introduce tennis by this programme.
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 Although the goal of the project was
to hunt most talented 10 boys and 10
girls for residential training camp for
one month but we have introduce
tennis about 2,000 fresh kids who did
not play tennis before. Most of them
did not even touched a tennis racket
before.

14. Growth of Tennis in Bangladesh
 Root level talent hunting programme . . Photographs
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15. Growth of Tennis in Bangladesh
 Root level talent hunting programme . . Photographs
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16. Growth of Tennis in Bangladesh
 Root level talent hunting programme . . Photographs
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17. Growth of Tennis in Bangladesh
 Root level talent hunting programme . . Photographs
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18. Growth of Tennis in Bangladesh
 Root level talent hunting programme . . Photographs
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19. Growth of Tennis in Bangladesh
 Root level talent hunting programme . . Photographs
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20. T h a n k y o u a l l f o r w a t c h i n g

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