The Worldwide Tennis Federation (ITF) and the LTA have joined over 600 international organizations as signatories of the Worldwide Working Group on Girls and Sport’s Brighton plus Helsinki Declaration. The official signing befell on Sunday 6 November on the welcome reception for the 2022 Billie Jean King Cup by Gainbridge Finals in Glasgow.
Created in 1994, the Brighton Plus Helsinki Declaration contains 10 Ideas designed to assist organizations develop a tradition and methods of working that allow and worth the complete involvement of ladies in any respect ranges and in all capacities.
As signatories, the LTA and ITF decide to upholding the ten rules that allow ladies and ladies to freely and safely take part, compete and construct careers in sport and bodily exercise. This provides to each organizations’ present work to additional gender equality in tennis.
Via their respective gender equality methods, Benefit All and She Rallies, the ITF and LTA have already set clear targets and actions to construct on tennis’ custom as a worldwide chief for equal benefit in sport and society, and additional strengthen that dedication and collaboration with this declaration.
The ITF and LTA are this week internet hosting the Finals of the most important annual worldwide group competitors in ladies’s sport, the Billie Jean King Cup. The competitors embodies the values and imaginative and prescient of its namesake Billie Jean King, and can play a key position in elevating the visibility of elite feminine tennis within the UK and world wide.
ITF CEO Kelly Fairweather stated: “We’re proud to have signed the Brighton plus Helsinki Declaration, alongside our colleagues on the LTA, forward of the Billie Jean King Cup by Gainbridge Finals. The competitors is called after a tireless campaigner for equality, and signing the Declaration underlines our persevering with dedication to making sure that ladies and ladies have equal alternatives throughout our sport – an necessary facet of our Benefit All technique. We stay up for an exciting six days of competitors in Glasgow this week, with among the world’s greatest gamers battling to make sure that their nation is topped world champions on Sunday.”
LTA President David Rawlinson stated: “We have now been delighted to work alongside the ITF to convey the Girls’s World Cup of Tennis to Britain this yr so it’s becoming that on the eve of a unbelievable showcase of ladies’s tennis, we additionally collectively signal this necessary treaty.”
LTA Deputy President Sandi Procter added: “Signing the Brighton Declaration is one other likelihood to affirm our dedication to creating tennis accessible, welcoming and pleasurable for ladies and ladies who need to play the sport, work within the sport or comply with as a fan. That is the main focus of our She Rallies ambition, we’ve made nice progress however there’s nonetheless loads to do.”
IWG Secretary Normal Lisa O’Keefe stated: “I’m delighted that LTA and ITF have at the moment signed as much as the Brighton Declaration, and it’s becoming that they’re doing so on the Billie Jean King Cup. Backing up their dedication to the ten Ideas of the Declaration with their respective gender equality methods, She Rallies and Benefit All, makes clear their ambition to make sure tennis is an surroundings the place ladies and ladies can take part absolutely and thrive.”
