Oceania Tennis Federation


Oceania Tennis Federation is the regional governing body of tennis in Oceania. It was formed as a regional association of International Tennis Federation in 1993 with seven member nations to foster the development of tennis in the Oceania region specially main focus on small island nations and Papua New Guinea as the structure of tennis in both Australia and New Zealand was already well developed. The organisation started with seven members now have twenty one countries in its members list.

Member nations

Oceania Tennis Federation has 20 full-time member nations and one New Caledonia associate member. This is an alphabetically ordered list of full members of OTF:
CountryAssociationHeadquarter
American Samoa Tennis AssociationPago Pago
Tennis AustraliaMelbourne
Cook Islands TennisRarotonga
Fiji Tennis AssociationLautoka
Guam National Tennis FederationAgana
Kiribati Tennis AssociationTarawa
Micronesia Tennis AssociationPohnpei
Nauru Tennis AssociationNauru
New CaledoniaNZNFKNMIPLWPNGSAMSOLTAHTGATUVVAN

ANZ Schools plan

In 1994 OTF President Geoff Pollard initiated a program allowing more children to play tennis at school level; OTF player development and marketing consultant Barry McMillan reached to ANZ Banking Group with this scheme for financial support. ANZ group agreed to this deal to sponsor a tennis in schools program in Pacific Island nations.