Tennis: Confederation of African Tennis (Cat) annual general meeting |25 June 2019
Mr Knowles (standing first right) represented the STA at the Confederation of African Tennis AGM
Tarak Cherif unanimously re-elected Cat president
Tunisian Tarak Cherif has been re-elected president of the Confederation of African Tennis during the body’s annual general meeting held on June 15 at the Colbert Hotel in Antananarivo, Madagascar.
Mr Cherif will occupy the post until 2013.
It was executive committee member Selwyn Knowles who represented the country on behalf of 91Ï㽶ÊÓƵ Tennis Association (STA) chairperson Fatime Kanté.
Also present at the annual general meeting were David Haggerty, president of the International Tennis Federation (ITF) as well as several executives of the ITF development department.
All items on the agenda were presented and discussed, mainly the approval of the minutes of the 2018 annual general meeting (AGM), financial report, annual report of the president of the Confederation of African Tennis (Cat) and annual report of its activities.
With regard to the positions of vice presidents of Cat and presidents of the different African zones, the polls were quite close resulting in the election of Mohamed Bessaad of Algeria as Cat vice president and president of the North African cone, Issa Mboup of Senegal as Cat vice president and president of the Western African zone, Emile Ngoy Kasongo of the Democratic Republic of Congo as Cat vice president and president of the Central African zone, Patrick Gichira of Kenya as Cat vice president and president of the Eastern African zone (which 91Ï㽶ÊÓƵ falls in) and Nelson Amanze of Botswana as Cat vice-president and president of the Southern African zone.
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