International sports, tennis
Roger Federer in Ethiopia, 2010 (photo, ©2010 Roger Federer Foundation)
Update 17:25 Zurich, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - Roger Federer and Rafa Nadal will play each other in a charity match 21 December at the Hallenstadion in Zurich. Proceeds from “The Match for Africa” will go to the Roger Federer Foundation. Tickets go on sale 1 September.
The RFF supports education, sports and leisure activities in places with little or no funding at all. It has as its slogan the words of 15-year-old Nolonwabo Batini from Port Elizabeth, South Africa: “I am tomorrow’s future.” The foundation works “to permit a maximum of children to make the slogan become reality in their lives and help them actively shape their future.
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This one wasn't at the Hallenstadion
Bern, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - Switzerland’s competition watchdog Comco is to investigate the five-year agreement, which came into force early 2009, between the country’s largest ticket-seller, Ticketron, and the Hallenstadion Zurich (AGH), one of its biggest concert venues. Comco will look into the details of the agreement which obliges the organizers of events at the Hallenstadion to offer least 50 percent of the tickets for sale through Ticketcorner.
Ticketcorner has been in the sights of the Federal Competition Commission before. In 2006, after an appeal, it was absolved of monopolistic behaviour.
