ISLAMABAD, May 6 (APP) Pakistans biggest tennis complex in the federal capital is almost ready for use but will be formally inaugurated for international competitions in October this year. The Pakistan Tennis Federation (PTF) Tennis Complex will be ready in just a few weeks and a cost of nearly 30 million rupees has already been incurred on this project, said the President of the PTF Senator Syed Dilawar Abbas, on Tuesday.

He said this while inaugrating the Sirajul Haq Memorial Tennis Tournament. The tournament has been named after a great tennis, squash and hockey player late Sirajul Haq whose three sons Inam, Islam and Hamid went on to play Davis Cup for Pakistan.

Dilawar said that two future international tennis tournaments will be played in Islamabad and one in Lahore in October and the PTF Complex will be inaugurated before these tournaments. “However, the work is almost complete save a retaining wall and the contractors will soon hand over the facility to PTF,” he added. He also said a national tennis academy would be established at PTF Complex which will be the first tennis complex, complete with nine clay courts and a 5,000-seat centre court, wholly owned by PTF. Dilawar said PTF was concentrating on improvement of juniors' and women's tennis and the complex would help achieve these objectives.