Friday, June 12, 2026

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BARBADOS TOOK ANOTHER step in its quest to make road tennis a global game with the opening of the first Road Tennis International Workshop yesterday at the Wildey Gymnasium.

The workshop attracted participants from Guyana, St Lucia, St Vincent and the Grenadines, Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, Cuba and Antigua and Barbuda.

Minister of Sport Stephen Lashley said that the workshop signalled the beginning of a series of activities leading up to the hosting of the World Road Tennis Championship in September of next year.

Lashley was giving the feature address at the opening ceremony and he said that in recent times tremendous strides had been taken in the game’s development. (PG)

Please read the full story in today’s Daily Nation, or in the eNATION edition.

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