ＮＥＣ執行役員社長 遠藤信博メッセージ
ＮＥＣ執行役員社長 遠藤信博
本大会が、今年もＩＴＦ（国際車いすテニス連盟）公認のツアーの一環として、盛大に開催されますことを心よりお慶び申し上げます。
ＮＥＣ車いすテニスツアーは、1992年に13ケ国・21大会でスタートいたしました。車いすテニスの普及とともにツアーの規模も拡大し、今年は45ケ国・173大会が開催される運びとなりました。
これもひとえに、これまでご協力いただいた多くの関係者の方々のおかげであり、この場をお借りして厚く御礼申し上げます。
ＮＥＣは、ＣＳＲ活動（企業の社会的責任）の一環として、さまざまな社会貢献活動に取り組んでいます。車いすテニスの支援はそのひとつであり、この活動が障がい者スポーツ発展の一助となれば幸いです。
本大会に参加される選手の皆さんのご活躍・ご健闘を心よりお祈りいたします。
2012 NEC Wheelchair Tennis Tour
Nobuhiro Endo
President, NEC Corporation
I am delighted to welcome everyone to the NEC Wheelchair Tennis Tour for 2012. It is estimated that as many as 173 tournaments will be held in 45 countries this year.
Tennis is a challenging, dynamic, and exciting sport - as I am sure you will agree. But it is accessible to young and old alike. It can be enjoyed by people with and without disability together. It expresses innovation, hope, self-help, collaboration, passion,
determination, and achievement.
Passion for innovation, self-help, and collaboration are part of NEC's core values. For more than 100 years as a good corporate citizen, NEC has shown a relentless commitment to combining effective business with the creation of a sustainable society of affluence and full of diversity. That is, NEC strives through businesses such as our IT and network integrated solutions and semiconductor solutions to contribute to the attainment of a richer society with deepened mutual understanding among people worldwide. Our goal is the“realization of human potential”- enabling individuals and groups to achieve their targets using the technologies that surround them.
NEC is showing this commitment again during this event in supporting a sport that is still one of the fastest-growing wheelchair sports in the world. We are proud that the tour continues to grow in popularity globally. It is wonderful to see so many amazing women and men celebrating their passion and enthusiasm together (after travelling from quite a distance sometimes) at the tournaments of the NEC Wheelchair Tennis Tour around the world that are professionally organized.
This success would not have been possible without the dedicated efforts of the International Tennis Federation and every wheelchair tennis association around the world, which I highly appreciate.
I would also like to thank all athletes, coaches, every sponsor and volunteer in the local community who have contributed to the success of this tour. Without which the tour would not be possible.
I wish all the players the best of luck.
