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Date: 26 Oct 2009 |  Photographer: None / Not Applicable
Date: 26 Oct 2009 |  Photographer: Invacare
Date: 26 Oct 2009 |  Photographer: None / Not Applicable
Date: 26 Oct 2009 |  Photographer: None / Not Applicable
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| 26 Oct 2009 | |
| Invacare World Team Cup moves to Turkey |
The ITF announced that that 2010 Invacare World Team Cup, the ITF’s flagship wheelchair tennis team event, will be held for the first time in Antalya in Turkey. The event will be staged on the clay courts of the Club Ali Bey Manavgat on the Turkish Riviera on 3-9 May.
Turkey will become the 15th nation to host this prestigious event, which is often referred to as the Davis Cup and Fed Cup of wheelchair tennis. A total of 187 players from 33 nations competed in this year’s 25th anniversary event in Nottingham, Great Britain in the men’s, women’s, quad and junior categories.
The 2010 Invacare World Team Cup will be an exciting addition to the wheelchair tennis programme in Turkey , which has grown considerably since the country first benefitted from the launch of an ITF Silver Fund programme in 2007. Turkey went on to be represented at the 2008 Beijing Paralympics, before making its Invacare World Team Cup debut in 2009. The country also hosted its first world ranking wheelchair tournaments last year.
“The ITF is very pleased to announce Turkey as a host nation for the 2010 Invacare World Team Cup,” said ITF President Francesco Ricci Bitti. “It is an exciting time for wheelchair tennis in Turkey and I am sure that the Antalya will stage a tremendous event after the success of previous ITF championships hosted by Club Ali Bey Manavgat.”
Franz Krammer, Managing Director of Invacare Europe said: “Invacare Europe is extremely proud to be a team member of the Invacare World Team Cup. Turkey joined the ever-growing list of nations to participate in 2009, and we look forward to taking this major event to a new part of the world in 2010, spreading the Invacare ethos ‘Yes You Can’ and hosting events such the International Invacare Symposium.”
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