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Bigger serve soon?

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BARBADOS’ PREMIER EXHIBITION isn’t settling for just holding serve anymore.
Seems Robbie Earle wasn’t the only one seeing bigger things pon de rock.
From as early as next year, the Tennis Pon de Rock festival could be transformed from an exhibition series to a competitive challenge event with major prize money on the line in an effort to attract the game’s biggest stars.
Barbados Invitational Tennis Exhibition director Kodi Lewis revealed this as a possible move ahead of the organizers’ post mortem meeting for the just-concluded two-day series.
“I think in the next couple months we have some critical decisions to make for the next exhibition in terms of the players we want to bring down and the format we need to get those players,” said Lewis in a telephone interview with SATURDAY SPORT. (JM)
 
Full story in today’s SATURDAY SUN.
 
 
 

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