Tennis Australia has acquired virtually a million {dollars} to help extra girls and ladies to play tennis and benefit from the psychological and well being advantages sport gives.
Melbourne, VIC, Australia, 22 January 2025 | Tennis Australia
Tennis Australia has acquired virtually a million {dollars} to help extra girls and ladies to play tennis and benefit from the psychological and well being advantages sport gives.
The Albanese Authorities has supplied $992,000 to ship packages in as much as 60 golf equipment to enhance the participation and retention of ladies and ladies from Culturally and Linguistically Numerous (CALD) communities.
The funding is supplied below the participation and tools stream of the federal government’s $200 million Play Our Manner Program to take away boundaries confronted by girls and ladies in sport.
From July 2025, Tennis Australia will work with as much as 60 tennis golf equipment throughout Australia, supervising tailor-made measures in every membership to help 30 CALD girls and ladies on common.
“Equality, inclusion and variety – each on and off the courtroom – are on the coronary heart of every little thing we do. This extra funding from the Authorities will help our ongoing work with girls and ladies in tennis – now with a give attention to culturally numerous communities,” Tennis Australia CEO Craig Tiley mentioned.
“The funding will assist break down boundaries, create lasting alternatives and encourage the subsequent technology of gamers from all backgrounds to succeed in their full potential in tennis and past.”
Minister for Sport Anika Wells added: “Regardless of Australia’s proud historical past in girls’s tennis, too many ladies and ladies are both not making an attempt the game or dropping out as they get into their late teenagers. We want extra folks from extra numerous backgrounds taking part in extra sport.
“This funding might assist us develop a Brisbane 2032 Olympian or Paralympian to problem for a tennis medal.
“Enjoying tennis and different sport has nice advantages for our well being and psychological well being as people, and likewise brings folks and communities collectively. This Play Our Manner program will make it safer and simpler for girls and ladies from all backgrounds to get energetic with tennis.”
This system goals to help 1800 CALD girls and ladies. From over 600 functions, Tennis Australia was considered one of 124 sporting organisations awarded funding below the Play Our Manner participation and tools stream.
The extra funding will help the work already accomplished as a part of Tennis Australia’s Ladies & Ladies Technique – which was developed three years in the past with a imaginative and prescient that there aren’t any limits for girls and ladies on and off the courtroom.
Thursday 23 January can be Ladies and Ladies Day on the Australian Open – a celebration of ladies and ladies in tennis, headlined by our ninth AO Inspirational Sequence.
