Federación Venezolana de Tenis

What is the Federación Venezolana de Tenis?

The Federación Venezolana de Tenis is the national federation for tennis in Venezuela. The Comité Olímpico Venezolano (COV) lists it in its directory of “Federaciones inscritas en el Comité Olímpico Venezolano”, naming Luis Contreras as president and giving the social-media handle @fvtenis as its contact.^[1] COSAT, the South American tennis confederation, names the “Federación Venezolana de Tenis” among its ten member associations.^[2] World Tennis, the International Tennis Federation, records Venezuela in its 2026 membership and share register as a member holding one Class B share.^[3]

Venezuelan law defines national sports federations as “entidades de derecho privado para la promoción y desarrollo del deporte y la actividad física con alcance y carácter nacional” — private-law bodies for the promotion and development of sport, national in scope — and requires that their constitution and operation as a national federation be authorised in advance by the board of the Instituto Nacional de Deportes (Article 48 of the Ley Orgánica de Deporte, Actividad Física y Educación Física, 2011).^[4] The World Tennis constitution requires each of its Class B and Class C members to be “recognised as the national governing body for tennis in its Country including the administration, organisation and practising of the sport” (Article 4.18.4).^[5]

What does the Federación Venezolana de Tenis govern or do?

Article 49 of the 2011 sports law sets out what every national federation does: it directs, coordinates and supervises the sporting activity within its competence, issues the technical and ethical norms of its discipline, exercises disciplinary authority under the law, trains human talent, organises and directs the competitions of its speciality, calls up professional athletes for international competition, recognises and proclaims the members of the national teams, adopts its own statutes and regulations, and accounts publicly for its funds.^[4]

Internationally, the federation’s position follows from its World Tennis membership. The constitution gives Class B members the right to “enter teams in the Davis Cup and the Billie Jean King Cup” (Article 4.14.3) and one vote per Class B share; a Class B member “may hold 1, 3, 5, 7, 9 or 12 Class B shares” (Article 4.32).^[5] The 2026 register lists Venezuela among the members with one Class B share each.^[3] The same constitution binds members to the World Anti-Doping Code and to the Tennis Anti-Doping Programme (Articles 19A and 19B).^[5]

When was the Federación Venezolana de Tenis founded and where is it based?

World Tennis requires each of its Class B and Class C members to “be a legal entity, whether for-profit or not-for-profit, that is properly constituted in accordance with the law applicable in its Country” (Article 4.18.2).^[5] In Venezuela, that law is the Ley Orgánica de Deporte, Actividad Física y Educación Física, signed on 15 August 2011, under which a national federation’s constitution and operation require the prior authorisation of the Instituto Nacional de Deportes (Article 48).^[4]

The COV’s directory gives the federation’s contact as the handle @fvtenis and names Luis Contreras as president.^[1] In the South American regional structure, COSAT’s member list places it alongside the national bodies of Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru and Uruguay.^[2]

How is the Federación Venezolana de Tenis recognised?

World Tennis. The 2026 World Tennis membership and share register lists Venezuela among the members holding “1 Class B Share each”; the register distinguishes Class B members, with voting rights, from Class C members, without them.^[3] World Tennis states that it works with “214 member national tennis associations and affiliated regional associations”.^[7]

COSAT. COSAT’s own site lists the “FEDERACIÓN VENEZOLANA DE TENIS” among its ten members. No Venezuelan sits on its current Directive Committee, which is headed by Rafael Westrupp of Brazil.^[2]

Comité Olímpico Venezolano. The COV lists the Federación Venezolana de Tenis among the federations “inscritas” — registered — with it.^[1] Under Article 51 of the 2011 sports law, the COV is the private, not-for-profit body created “para promover, desarrollar y difundir los valores, principios y reglas técnicas del movimiento mundial olímpico en la República”.^[4]

What does the Federación Venezolana de Tenis organise?

National teams. As a Class B member of World Tennis, the federation is the body entitled to enter Venezuela’s teams in the Davis Cup and the Billie Jean King Cup.^[5][3] The Davis Cup site lists Venezuela in World Group II, drawn against Estonia in a first-round tie scheduled for 6–8 February 2027 and marked “To be played”.^[6] Under Article 49 of the 2011 sports law, it is the federation that recognises and proclaims the members of national teams.^[4]

Domestic competition. The same article gives the federation the task of organising and directing the competitions of its speciality and issuing the technical norms of the discipline in line with the international federation.^[4]

Who are its members?

Under the 2011 sports law, national federations “están constituidas por los integrantes de las asociaciones deportivas estadales indicadas en esta Ley” — they are formed by the members of the state sports associations — and may exceptionally be formed directly by clubs’ members with the prior authorisation of the Instituto Nacional de Deportes (Article 48).^[4] The law defines state associations as “entidades deportivas de derecho privado, integradas por los clubes para la promoción de una disciplina deportiva” (Article 44), and clubs as “la expresión organizativa primaria del sistema asociativo deportivo nacional” (Article 42).^[4]

The federation is in turn a member of wider bodies: one of COSAT’s ten member associations^[2] and one of the national members of World Tennis, with one Class B share.^[3]