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LTA generous to a fault as load of balls breaks bank
Independent, The (London), Jun 26, 2008
Wimbledon Diary
*The Lawn Tennis Association revealed yesterday that it spends 250,000 per year on balls. (Insert your own joke about players / coaches / spin doctors). Really. A quarter of a million quid on tennis balls. Roger Draper, chief executive, consulted fellow governing bodies in Europe about this. "The Spanish and German federations couldn't believe it. They have deals with suppliers," he told us. Draper will now try to set up a similar partnership deal that will lead to freebies on that front. Any savings will come in handy. The LTA expects to lose 250,000 by staging September's Davis Cup tie with Austria at the All England Club, because the Club, not the LTA, will make the profits through things like catering. And yet English sport at large still retains a certain class in its ability to help those less well off, for example in the case of a small European nation whose Olympic athletes regularly use the Institute of Sport in Sheffield for free. "Nearly all our facilities date back to Communist times. They're very old," said a spokesman for the Olympic committee of Serbia, who have two of the top three women's players, and three men inside 100 (to Britain's one).
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