PTF slackness force Pakistan to play their home tie away from home – Tennis News
Pakistan Tennis Federation (PTF) has deprived Pakistani fans yet another world class tournament due to their slackness. Pakistan was to host their Davis Cup tie against Lebanon in Lahore from February 10-12, next year but PTF officials
reported the security arrangement 32 days later to the International Tennis Federation (ITF).
Since 2010, Pakistan has been their home ties of Davis Cup outside Pakistan and this was because their competitors were not ready to play in Pakistan due to political instability and other security issues. This time it was all
clear from Lebanese side but Pakistani officials were not so concerned to provide tennis fanatics with a world class events and hence didn’t paid any attention whatsoever towards this issue. Their report to ITF was so late that ITF decided to shift the venue
to some other state then Pakistan.
No one from PTF stood up to increase the speed of work and make sure that Pakistan hosts this tie and not let go another opportunity of hosting a world class events. Pakistani sport fanatics are already deprived of cricket matches
in Pakistan and now they will not see their tennis icons performing live.
Aisam-ul-Haq, Pakistani tennis ace, was very disappointed at such lethargic attitude of PTF officials and proclaimed that it will be very difficult for Pakistani players to qualify for advanced stages of the tournament if they
keep on playing their home ties away from home.
ITF was concerned about the security conditions is Pakistan so they wanted to have a detailed report of security advancements made to make sure that players and event were conducted in the most secure and safe environment. Instead
of making sure that report was prepared with utmost care and provided to ITF on time, PTF officials were so lazy in their acts that they couldn’t even properly document all the arrangements and sent the report almost a month later from deadline.
M Khaliq, Asim Shafiq, Nasir Sherazi and Aqeel Khan represented Pakistan in the away tie against Lebanon that was contested in 1999. Although, Lebanon won that tie, Pakistani players fell short of just finishing shots and came
very close of winning the contest.
While talking about the shift in the venue, PTF senior vice president, Col (retd) Asif Dar, said “Though the tie has been shifted from Pakistan yet it will provide another chance to habitual joy riders to have a good time abroad
for a couple of weeks.”
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