The President of Russian Lawn Tennis Federation Shamil Tarpishev arrived in Ufa with reconnaissance visit. He attended the local tennis school in Ufa. In the course of the visit Shamil Tarpishev discussed the prospects of construction of a tennis center in the capital of Bashkortostan. Later M-r Tarpishev was noticed at the hockey match between “Salavat Ulaev” and Saint-Petersburg’s “Soviet Army Club” in the modern mega-ice-palace “Ufa-Arena”.