Sri Lanka, Sept. 6 -- While tennis came to a halt the world over during the Covid-19 pandemic, nothing got in the way to stop the sport in Sri Lanka as the Sri Lanka Tennis Association (SLTA) continued working in other areas to spread the game.

They did plenty of development work and conducted educational programs in places like Matale and Kandy where kids came in large numbers to learn the fundamentals of the game while new courts were set up in the north and east of the island.

President of the SLTA Iqbal Bin Isaack said that three new hard courts were built in Batticaloa and over 150 boys and girls have taken to the sport while land was allocated in Trincomalee and Jaffna to build tennis courts to encourage parents to persuade their ...