The USTA at the moment introduced the launch of USTA Join, a brand new initiative aimed toward connecting key members of the tennis trade within the U.S. in an effort to extend trade collaboration to offer insights and providers. USTA Join will concentrate on creating better integration and communication for tennis amenities, trade software program suppliers, trade associations, retailers and producers to facilitate connectivity to develop the sport in any respect ranges.
“The aim of USTA Join is to create better synergies for all these within the tennis trade and to make use of knowledge in a method that can assist join gamers, suppliers, amenities, administration programs for all these concerned within the sport within the U.S.,” stated Craig Morris, Chief Government, Neighborhood Tennis, USTA. “We wish the USTA to be a useful resource for all of tennis. By providing better entry to play alternatives, whereas on the similar time serving to these providing these providers to take action in a more practical and financially useful method, we’re doing simply that.”
A variety of key companions throughout totally different areas of the tennis trade have already signed on to work collectively by way of USTA Connect with gas innovation and develop tennis, with extra entities anticipated to hitch sooner or later. These USTA Join companions embody:
CourtReserve
Affect Staff Tennis (ITT)
Intercollegiate Tennis Affiliation (ITA)
Worldwide Tennis Federation (ITF)
Scala Sports activities
Tennis-Level
Tennisrecruiting.internet
Information and know-how are on the heart of USTA Join. Collaborating companions will profit from knowledge evaluation and insights designed to construct efficiencies and drive higher enterprise choices.
One of many highlights of USTA Join would be the capacity for authorised companions to entry the ITF World Tennis Quantity (WTN). Developed by the ITF and free to all gamers within the U.S, WTN is likely one of the most superior and correct ranking programs on the planet, and all gamers within the U.S. who play in a USTA occasion are mechanically assigned a WTN, for gratis.
“We’re extraordinarily excited to be a associate of USTA Join,” stated Ashley Owens, Co-Founding father of CourtReserve. “Pulling collectively so many alternative components of the tennis trade to assist everybody get smarter about easy methods to develop the sport might be a recreation changer for our shopper amenities and everybody trying to drive extra tennis play.”
For extra data on USTA Join please go to usta.com/ustaconnect or contact ustaconnect@usta.com
