Cambodia is looking forward to send athletes in soft tennis for the 30th Southeast Asian Games to be held in the Philippines.
But before the biennial meet kick off on November 30, around seven athletes will be sent to train in Japan for six months.
Japan is one of the best countries that produces best and strong athletes for soft tennis. Japan was also the training ground of Cambodian athletes last June.
Cambodian Soft Tennis Federation funded the accommodation, food, travel and training costs of the mentioned training.
An official of the federation said that foreign training is necessary to hone the skills of the Cambodian athletes and is optimistic that their athletes will improve before the SEA Games.
Aside from SEA Games, Cambodia plans to host and participate in regional and international soft tennis tournaments.
The competitions that Cambodia will join are Asian Championships and the University Championships both to be hosted by the Philippines and World Championships in China.
Cambodia will also host the Southeast Asian Championships in August with seven countries confirmed to participate.
Last Asian Games in Indonesia, Cambodia sent seven athletes. These were Samsocheaphearun Doeum, Chamroeun Ek, Sophorn Kann, Sambath Orn and Sarsarith Yi in men's events and Mariyan Meth together with Sotheary Rin in the women's events.
Soft tennis is one of the 56 sports to be contested at the Southeast Asian Games 2019.
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