{"id":9411,"date":"2023-08-02T01:00:55","date_gmt":"2023-08-02T05:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/?p=9411"},"modified":"2023-08-08T02:39:50","modified_gmt":"2023-08-08T06:39:50","slug":"uspta-extends-playmate-agreement-in-tennis-and-adds-pickleball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/suppliers\/uspta-extends-playmate-agreement-in-tennis-and-adds-pickleball\/","title":{"rendered":"USPTA Extends Playmate Agreement in Tennis and Adds Pickleball"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/USPTA-300x266.jpg\" alt=\"USPTA\" width=\"300\" height=\"266\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-989\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/USPTA-300x266.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/USPTA-200x177.jpg 200w, http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/USPTA.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>USPTA<\/p>\n<p><strong>LAKE NONA, FL<\/strong> &#8211; The United States Professional Tennis Association (USPTA), Inc. announces it will extend its agreement with Playmate Tennis Machines for three years. As of the agreement, Playmate will continue to serve as the Official Ball Machine of the USPTA and will now also serve as the Official Pickleball Ball Machine of the USPTA.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPlaymate Ball Machines is excited to extend this agreement with the USPTA,\u201d said Anna Norris, CFO of Metaltek. \u201cWith this continued partnership, we support the USPTA\u2019s vision by manufacturing the best products with features that teaching professionals need. The addition of the Playmate Pickleball Machine allows us to meet the growth into other racquet sports.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Playmate has been the Official Ball Machine of the USPTA since 2017 and has committed to serving its tennis-teaching professionals into 2026.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPlaymate has been the industry leader in ball machines for many years. And, they have been an ardent supporter of the USPTA for even longer,\u201d said USPTA CEO John Embree. \u201cIf you need a ball machine, they\u2019re the best. We are ecstatic to have Playmate continue to support our tennis-teaching professionals and expand into our pickleball endeavors. We are looking forward to continuing our storied relationship.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>LAKE NONA, FL<\/strong> &#8211; The United States Professional Tennis Association (USPTA), Inc. announces it will extend its agreement with Playmate Tennis Machines for three years. As of the agreement, Playmate will continue to serve as the Official Ball Machine of the USPTA and will now also serve as the Official Pickleball Ball Machine of the USPTA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":989,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[162],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9411"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9411"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9412,"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9411\/revisions\/9412"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.clubinsideronline.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}