The Greeting of the FNTR President
Dear friends!
I have been keen on table tennis since childhood. It is difficult to think of any other sport which is more widely available; it has no Limitations either with regards to age or health. Tennis racket is easily handled by everybody young and old. Any person, which takes it, apart from being cheerful, can develop swift reaction, agility and good physical shape. Table tennis is a sport of friendship, a will to win, a sports for all times.
Being a Head of the Table Tennis Federation of Russia is a great honor and enormous responsibility for me. We face a lot of complex tasks as today this sport goes through difficult time. Out paramount task is to return a tennis table to every yard, every school, to attract boys and girls to the game. But our major attention is focused on the highest achievements, on rebirth and development of the domestic tennis school. We want to collect bit by bit all the best that our famous coaches and athletes achieved, to study international expertise and we shall do our level best to make the anthem of our great Motherland be heard at the best sports arenas of the world.
President FNTR