Youth and Sports Minister Erick Thohir stated that tennis is one of the leading sports in the National Sports Grand Design .
"Tennis is included in the 21 but padel is not yet ," said Erick Thohir in a meeting with administrators and athletes of the Indonesian Padel Association in Jakarta on Tuesday.
He conveyed this when touching on the competition between sports branches to enter the top sports branches in DBON.
In the current DBON, there are 17 superior sports branches, namely athletics, archery, cycling, rowing, gymnastics, weightlifting, badminton, taekwondo, karate, wushu, rock climbing, shooting, pencak silat, swimming, football, basketball, and volleyball.
The Minister of Youth and Sports stated that his party would revise the DBON, which would include 21 superior sports branches which would later be announced in full.
