The GLTA then organized a few of its executives to visit the club and launch its operations along with a team of junior and senior players who were selected from Georgetown and New Amsterdam. The day was a good one for tennis and was highlighted with top male players Phillip Squires and Ezra Sue-Ho putting on a great show of their tennis prowess for a few spectators.
President of the GLTA, Christopher Ram, thanked GuySuCo for allowing access to the facility and expressed his delight at the great contribution towards one of the key objectives of the GLTA for 2010 which is to re-establish tennis clubs both in quantity and quality. A quantity of 36 mini-tennis and intermediate racquets and 50 balls geared for young beginners ten years and under were handed over to the club. The Corriverton Tennis Club is scheduled to start a mini-tennis programme in the primary schools in the area while the Wimbledon Tennis Club also received equipment for the re-establishment of their school programme. New Amsterdam coaches, Carol Humphrey and Godfrey Lowden, both expressed joy at such a positive gesture towards the development of tennis at a time when club participation seemed to be dwindling and they both recommitted themselves to the development of tennis in Berbice. Joseph Rayappen has taken on the task of being the president of the club and he made a commitment to promote the sport in the community while Doerga is the secretary. They are looking for greater participation from the community, initially for recreational purposes as a health benefit but also with the intention of the Corriverton commu-nity becoming a fierce competitor on the local tennis scene.
