Tennis body gets Rp 13.2m

Tennis body gets Rp 13.2m

JAKARTA (JP): National tennis team director Benny Mailili
complained yesterday about the small amount of money he received
from the National Sports Council to groom his athletes for the
13th Asian Games in Bangkok in December.

Benny said the assistance disbursed earlier this month was
only Rp 13.2 million (US$920), well below the Indonesian Tennis
Association's estimated quarterly spending of Rp 37.5 million.

The council has agreed to pay half of the association's
training expenses for the Asian Games.

Benny said he needed more funds to send players to
international tournaments which would serve as warm-ups for the
men's Davis Cup Asia-Oceania Zone Group I second-round playoff in
China in September and for the Asiad. Indonesia lost to Lebanon
3-2 in the first-round playoff in Beirut over the weekend. (yan)