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NET GAINS PHALKUN MAM, TENNIS CAMBODIA'S HEAD OF JUNIOR DEVELOPMENT, EXPLAINED THAT 50 PERCENT OF HIS COUNTRY'S 17 MILLION POPULATION IS UNDER THE AGE OF 20, SO A MAJOR CHALLENGE IS THE EDUCATION OF COACHES TO PROVIDE TENNIS PROGRAMMES. He pointed to one government school in particular, Wat Bo Primary School in Siem Reap which has 6,500 pupils, and how his organisation has trained maths, physics and history teachers to deliver tennis within the life skills section of the curriculum. A key task for Tennis South Africa's Chief Executive Officer Richard Glover, meanwhile, is countering the notion ITF Chief Operating Officer Kelly Fairweather delivered the conference's opening address in some quarters that the sport he governs is elitist and designed only for consumption by a privileged few. Japan's Chief Strategic Officer Yasu Hatakeyama, on the other hand, is determined to harness the momentum generated by Top 20 player Kei Nishikori, particularly through the prism of the 2020 Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games in Tokyo. These three cases barely scratch the surface but act as a taster of the ITF's inaugural Worldwide Participation 24 ITFWorld // SUMMER 2018 Judy Murray gave a rousing conclusion to the opening day D E V E L O P M E N T The ITF hosted its inaugural Worldwide Participation Conference in July as the sporting community came together to share best practice on how to drive participation numbers. By Ross McLean