Digitization of national sports structure

The digitization process would be kick started on the 27th Dec 2017, when SLTA President Mr. Iqbal Bin Issack would inaugurate the SLTA Players Registration System at the SLTA Office at 45 Sir Marcus Fernando Mawatha, Colombo.

The step taken by the SLTA is in keeping with the 2020 Vision Document of the International Tennis Federation (ITF), which aims to encourage its member National Federations bring in digitization of national sports structures, leading to better services to players and other components of the game.

Digitization of SLTA Administration is the brain child of Mr. Suresh Subramaniam, Vice President of the Sri Lanka Tennis Association, who is also the Vice President of the Asian Tennis Federation (South Asia)Having earlier served two successive terms in the Professional Tennis Committee of the International Tennis Federation (ITF) and now serving his second successive term in the Juniors Committee, it was the vast experience and exposure of Mr. Suresh Subramaniam at the top most level of the game, which made him grab this opportunity for his organization.This step has firmly established SL Tennis Association as the first sporting organization in the country to completely digitize every aspect of administration of the game

Sri Lanka Tennis Association would also become the first tennis National Federation in South Asia, and second National Federation in entire Asia to have taken steps towards complete indigenous digitization of its administration.Mr. Iqbal Bin Issack, President SLTA thanked & lauded his colleague and VP Mr. Suresh Subramaniam for putting SLTA firmly in the forefront of digitization program currently being observed in most developed sporting associations around the world.

The digitization process in successive stages would completely automate the administration of the Sri Lanka Tennis Association introducing the following, over the next year (to name a few).
1.     SLTA Players Registration System

2.     Automated launch of SLTA Tennis Tour & SLTA Club Tennis Tournaments,

3.     Online entry and withdrawal for players, via their personal players zones

4.     Automated 52 Week Rolling Rankings (Updated every Monday)

5.     Automatic Tournament Draws

6.     Live streaming of matches and scores on SLTA Website

7.     New exciting formats of weekend tournaments for the junior & club circuit.

8.     New digitized mobile compatible SLTA Website, offering ease of access

9.     Automated Coaches Registration & Licensing System

10.  Dedicated Coaches Zone for digitized coaches education support

VP Mr. Suresh Subramaniam, said, that the digitization program aims to provide the Sri Lankan Tennis stake holders, world class IT services, which would bring ease of navigation for everyone involved.

By introducing cutting edge cloud technology automation, the SLTA wishes to put its tennis development initiatives in forward gear.The aforementioned digitization would be introduced in stage over the period of next several months, with an aim to be completed by the end of 2018.