ITF announces revised nominations for ITF Board of Directors

The ITF has announced revised nominations for the elections for the ITF Board of Directors that will be held on Friday 25 September 2015 at the ITF’s Annual General Meeting in Santiago, Chile. Thirteen members of the Board of Directors will be elected for four-year terms from 2015-19.

The revised list includes Marina Tauber of Moldova, whose nomination was made before the deadline but not received by the ITF due to an issue with the ITF network firewall.

Nominations for election to the ITF Board of Directors have been made by Class B Member Nations who fully meet ITF constitutional criteria. The following nominations have been received:

Katrina Adams (USA)

* Tarak Cherif (TUN)

Martin Corrie (GBR)

Goran Djokovic (SRB)

* Sergio Elias (CHI)

Ismail El Shafei (EGY)

Jose Luis Escañuela Romana (ESP)

Luisanna Fodde (ITA)

Rodolfo Garcia Muriel (MEX)

Bernard Giudicelli (FRA)

* Jack Graham (CAN)

* David Haggerty (USA)

* Stephen Healy (AUS)

* Anil Khanna (IND)

Ulrich Klaus (GER)

Thomas Koenigsfeldt (DEN)

Jorge Lacerda da Rosa (BRA)

Celia Patrick (NZL)

Aleksei Selivanenko (RUS)

* Rene Stammbach (SUI)

Predrag Stojcevic (CRO)

Surendran Subramaniam (SRI)

Marina Tauber (MDA)

Stefan Tzvetkov (BUL)

Ayda Uluc (TUR)

Bulat Utemuratov (KAZ)

Karin van Bijsterveld (NED)

* Incumbent Board Member

The ITF is the world governing body of tennis and beach tennis, responsible for the rules of both sports and maintaining the integrity of tennis. The ITF is the owner and rightsholder of the two largest annual international team competitions in sport, Davis Cup by BNP Paribas and Fed Cup by BNP Paribas, and manages the Olympic Tennis Event on behalf of the IOC. The ITF’s highly regarded Tennis Development Department oversees the development of tennis worldwide and, through its Science and Technical Department, monitors both equipment and technology. Its Officiating Department oversees the education and advancement of officials worldwide. The ITF organises over 1,000 weeks of men’s and women’s professional tournaments on the ITF Pro Circuit and manages the ITF Junior Circuit and team competitions, the ITF Beach Tennis Tour, the ITF Wheelchair Tennis Tour and the ITF Seniors Circuit. The ITF also manages the Tennis Anti-Doping Programme on behalf of the sport and is a partner in the Tennis Integrity Unit. Visit www.itftennis.com, www.twitter.com/ITF_Tennis, www.Facebook.com/InternationalTennisFederation

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