{"id":18814,"date":"2021-01-06T12:47:03","date_gmt":"2021-01-06T13:47:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=18814"},"modified":"2021-01-06T13:57:28","modified_gmt":"2021-01-06T13:57:28","slug":"unable-to-host-south-asian-games-without-government-ptf-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=18814","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Unable to host South Asian Games without government\u2019 PTF President"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin: 5px 5% 10px 5%\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/arysports.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Tennis.jpg\" width=\"742\" height=\"486\" title=\"\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Islamabad: President of the Pakistan Tennis Federation (PTF), Salim Saifullah said there is no financial support from the government to host South Asian Games in the country.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Speaking to ARY News, Saifullah said without the government&#8217;s support, no international event can happen in Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We had to hold South Asian Games here in December or January but we are unable to do it due to lack of financial support from the government,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We get very few funds yearly for our players and staff. In this budget, we can&#8217;t hold big events,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>The president said countries smaller than Pakistan get more funds from the government for promotion of Tennis. &#8220;I asked Thailand&#8217;s Tennis president, how much money they get for promoting this sport? He said &#8216;1 Million Dollar&#8217;. Turkey gets 1 Million Euro but we get only 25-30 Thousand Dollars,<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;How can we cater to our players and give them facilities in this budget?&#8221; he asked.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/arysports.tv\/muzammil-sarah-bag-titles-begum-kulsum-saifullah-tennis-championship\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Muzammil, Sarah bag titles in 6th Begum Kulsum Saifullah Tennis Championship<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Islamabad: President of the Pakistan Tennis Federation (PTF), Salim Saifullah said there is no financial support from the government to host South Asian Games in <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=18814\" title=\"\u2018Unable to host South Asian Games without government\u2019 PTF President\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18814"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18814"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18816,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18814\/revisions\/18816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}