{"id":62720,"date":"2024-03-14T16:47:51","date_gmt":"2024-03-14T16:47:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/tennis-sa-lands-sponsorship-for-development-and-elite-game"},"modified":"2024-03-14T18:23:00","modified_gmt":"2024-03-14T18:23:00","slug":"tennis-sa-lands-sponsorship-for-development-and-elite-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/tennis-sa-lands-sponsorship-for-development-and-elite-game","title":{"rendered":"Tennis SA lands sponsorship for development and elite game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; South-Africa. <\/strong><\/span>Tennis South Africa (TSA) on Thursday announced a multi-million rand three-year sponsorship with international credit card company American Express that will aimed at boosting the sport from development to elite level.<\/p>\n<p>The deal, if it is renewed, could prove crucial to long-term plans to bringing higher level tournaments to the country, TSA president Gavin Crookes said. He declined to say what the value was.<\/p>\n<p>American Express, which is involved in tennis internationally, will be the headline sponsor of major local tournaments, such as the national club and junior championships and will also be used towards the local wheelchair tennis programme.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is an opportunity to grow our membership base, grow more tournaments and increase value at existing tournaments,\u201d Crookes said at the announcement in Johannesburg.<\/p>\n<p>The sport had more than 700,000 players nationally, but only around 35,000 of them were members. TSA was looking to grow membership by at least 100,000 in the next few years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe sport continues to be on an upward trajectory, but like many other sports in South Africa it has its challenges,\u201d added Crookes, explaining these included crumbling infrastructure and need for sustainable development.<\/p>\n<p>He said the money would also be used for the Davis Cup and Billie Jean King Cup teams.<\/p>\n<p>Wheelchair player Donald Ramphadi welcomed the announcement, but lamented that there had been no local wheelchair tournaments since 2016.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\">South-Africa<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; South-Africa. Tennis South Africa (TSA) on Thursday announced a multi-million rand three-year sponsorship with international credit card company American Express that will aimed at boosting the sport from development to elite level. The deal, if it is renewed, could prove crucial to long-term plans to bringing higher level tournaments to the country, TSA [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":62719,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,17],"tags":[274,315,275],"class_list":["post-62720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-sport","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-south-africa","tag-south-africa-2"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Tennis SA lands sponsorship for development and elite game - South Africa<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Tennis South Africa (TSA) on Thursday announced a multi-million rand three-year sponsorship with international credit ca ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/tennis-sa-lands-sponsorship-for-development-and-elite-game\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Tennis SA lands sponsorship for development and elite game\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Tennis South Africa (TSA) on Thursday announced a multi-million rand three-year sponsorship with international credit ca ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/tennis-sa-lands-sponsorship-for-development-and-elite-game\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"South Africa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2024-03-14T16:47:51+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-03-14T18:23:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/sites\/31\/2024\/03\/sm_1710427703.51109.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"750\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"449\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/tennis-sa-lands-sponsorship-for-development-and-elite-game#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/tennis-sa-lands-sponsorship-for-development-and-elite-game\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Tennis SA lands sponsorship for development and elite game\",\"datePublished\":\"2024-03-14T16:47:51+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2024-03-14T18:23:00+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/tennis-sa-lands-sponsorship-for-development-and-elite-game\"},\"wordCount\":243,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/tennis-sa-lands-sponsorship-for-development-and-elite-game#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/sites\/31\/2024\/03\/sm_1710427703.51109.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-South-Africa\",\"South-Africa\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"sport\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/tennis-sa-lands-sponsorship-for-development-and-elite-game#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/tennis-sa-lands-sponsorship-for-development-and-elite-game\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/tennis-sa-lands-sponsorship-for-development-and-elite-game\",\"name\":\"Tennis SA lands sponsorship for development and elite game - 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