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image by Zoltan Horvath, 12 November 2013
The International Tennis Federation (ITF) is the governing body of world
tennis, made up of 210 national tennis associations or corresponding
organizations of independent countries or territories.
It was established as the International Lawn Tennis Federation (ILTF) by 12
national associations meeting at a conference in Paris, France in 1913, and
discussions on rules and policy continued through 1923. It was at this time that
two compromises were reached: the title "world championships" would be abolished
and wording would be "for ever in the English language." In 1924 it became the
officially recognized organization with authority to control lawn tennis
throughout the world, with official "LTF Rules of Tennis". In 1977 it dropped
the word "lawn" from its title, recognizing that most tennis was no longer
played on grass.
Zoltan Horvath, 12 November 2013
The protocol manual for the London 2012 Olympics
(Flags and Anthems Manual London 2012 [loc12])
provides recommendations for flag designs. Each
international federation and international
paralympics federation was sent an image of the flag, including the PMS
shades, for their approval by LOCOG. Once this was obtained, LOCOG produced a 60
x 90 cm version of the flag for further approval. So, while these specs may not
be the official version of each flag, they are certainly what the
international federation and
international paralympics federation believed the flag to be.
Ian Sumner, 10 October 2012
Last year Ian Sumner made some scans from the flag manual for the London
2012 Olympics (Flags and Anthems Manual London 2012) which provides
recommendations for flag designs of international sporting federations.
For International Tennis Federation - ITF: PMS 340 green, PMS 109 yellow.
Zoltan Horvath, 12 November 2013
image by Zoltan Horvath, 12 November 2013