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SPRING 2016 WELCOME 2 ITFWORLD SPRING 2016 I am delighted to introduce the Spring 2016 issue of ITFWorld. This edition covers the tennis events of the past few months, from the season-opening Hopman Cup through the recent Fed Cup by BNP Paribas semifinals and taking in the exciting first round of Davis Cup by BNP Paribas, the Australian Open, and ITF Junior Masters on the way. It looks forward to the Rio 2016 Olympic Tennis Event, for which anticipation is building all the time. As wheelchair tennis celebrates its 40th anniversary, the ITF has chosen the sport's founder, Brad Parks, as the 2016 recipient of the prestigious Philippe Chatrier Award and this issue includes an interview with the inspiring Parks. He will be honoured at the upcoming ITF World Champions Dinner in Paris on 31 May. You can also read a profile of King Van Nostrand, who will be recognised with the ITF Seniors Award for Outstanding Achievement at the Dinner. On the business side, the ITF announced a new structure for the start of 2016, with Kris Dent and Stuart Miller promoted to Senior Executive Directors to head up two expanded departments that include the activities of the former Development Department. You can read more about these changes within these pages, which I believe will give Development more opportunity to realise the primary mission of the ITF, which is to develop, grow and promote tennis around the world. When allegations of match fixing and corruption within tennis were aired at the start of this year, the ITF and other tennis leaders took immediate action by announcing an Independent Review Panel who will look at all of the procedures and policies in place to keep tennis clean. The Independent Review Panel will review and report on the appropriateness and effectiveness of the Tennis Anti-Corruption Program and make recommendations for change. The ITF and the other Governing Bodies of International Tennis — ATP, WTA and the four Grand Slam tournaments — commit to making the outcomes and recommendations of the review publicly available, and to implementing and funding all the actions recommended by it. While this important work is carried out, I want to give you my assurance that the ITF puts integrity at the forefront of everything it does. While I do not believe that tennis is systematically corrupt, we have a zero-tolerance approach to all aspects of corruption which is reflected in our priorities for the sport. FOCUSING ON OUR PRIORITIES ITF President David Haggerty in Chengdu, China with Li Na, event ambassador for the ITF Junior Masters

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