Health and Fitness Club Industry News: Suppliers
Tuesday, April 29th, 2025
USTA, ATA Announce New Initiative to Grow Black Representation in Tennis
Posted: April 28, 2025 in Suppliers
PURCHASE, N.Y. - After years of successful collaboration, the United States Tennis Association Incorporated (USTA) and the American Tennis Association (ATA) announce a new initiative reflecting their shared mission to grow participation, retention and leadership opportunities among diverse communities in tennis. The pillars of this new initiative include increasing Black representation in tennis, a mentorship program developing pipelines of diverse professionals in coaching and tennis careers and inspiring future generations to participate in the sport. Read More...
USTA Names Tracy Davies as General Manager of USA Tennis
Posted: April 2, 2025 in Suppliers
ORLANDO, FL - USTA announces that Tracy Davies has been named to the position of General Manager, USA Tennis. In this new role, Davies will oversee an expanded high performance division that joins Player Development, Pro Circuit, Collegiate, Junior Competition and International Team Events into a single cohesive department. Read More...
U.S. Tennis Participation Surges to New High of 25.7 Million Players Following Five Consecutive Years of Growth
Posted: February 19, 2025 in Suppliers
ORLANDO, FL - In the latest data published by third-party research firms, USTA confirmed that tennis participation in the United States has surged to a new high of 25.7 million players following five consecutive years of growth. The nearly two million player increase from 2023 (up 1.9 million from 23.8 million) marks a significant acceleration in excess of 8% growth. Read More...
USTA Foundation Announces New Advisory Board Members
Posted: November 25, 2024 in Suppliers
PURCHASE, N.Y. - The USTA Foundation, the charitable arm of the United States Tennis Association Incorporated (USTA), recently announced its newest Advisory Board members. “We are excited to welcome our newest Advisory Board Members, whose diverse expertise and passion for service will undoubtedly move our mission forward,” said USTA Foundation CEO Ginny Ehrlich. Read More...
USTA Announces New Board of Directors for 2025-2026 Term
Posted: November 18, 2024 in Suppliers
PURCHASE, N.Y. - The USTA today announces its new Board of Directors, including elected officers and Directors at Large. The new Board has been elected to a two-year term that begins on January 1, 2025. The Board is responsible for setting organizational strategy and overseeing financials for the USTA, the national governing body for tennis in the United States. Read More...
USTA Reorganizes Player Development and Competitive Pathway at All Levels
Posted: October 23, 2024 in Suppliers
ORLANDO, FL - The USTA announces that it is reorganizing to better support players at all levels of their competitive pathway with Player Development, Pro Circuit, Team Events, Collegiate and Junior Competition teams now combined into a single cohesive department. Read More...
USTA Foundation Celebrates 30 Years, Raises $2.2M at Opening Night Gala
Posted: August 28, 2024 in Suppliers
FLUSHING, N.Y. - The USTA Foundation, the national charitable arm of the United States Tennis Association (USTA), celebrated 30 years of serving up dreams during its Opening Night Gala at the 2024 U.S. Open. The annual event raised over $2.2 million to help support the more than 250 community organizations that are part of the USTA Foundation’s flagship National Junior Tennis and Learning (NJTL) network. Read More...
USTA Mid-Atlantic Foundation to Sell Naming Rights, Sponsorship for New Tennis Campus
Posted: August 20, 2024 in Suppliers
HERNDON, VA - The USTA Mid-Atlantic Foundation has retained Aggregate Sports, a New York City-based sports marketing firm, to sell naming rights and sponsorship packages for the USTA Mid-Atlantic Tennis Campus. The complex, which will offer 190,000-square-feet of courts and facilities for tennis, pickleball, health, wellness and community-building in Loudoun County, Virginia is scheduled to break ground in 2025 and open in 2026. Read More...
USTA Awards More Than $100,000 in Wheelchair Tennis Grassroots Grants
Posted: July 19, 2024 in Suppliers
ORLANDO, FL - The USTA announces that it is awarding more than $100,000 in USTA Wheelchair Tennis Grassroots Grants to 56 local organizations that promote and develop the growth of wheelchair tennis and use the sport to help build stronger, healthier communities nationwide. Read More...
USTA Announces First-Ever Racquet Sports Management Apprenticeship Program
Posted: June 26, 2024 in Suppliers
ORLANDO, FL - The USTA announces the first-ever Racquet Sports Management Apprenticeship (RSMA) program, which will be launched in January 2025 at the USTA National Campus in Orlando, Florida. The two-year apprenticeship is designed to cultivate up-and-coming tennis coaches aspiring to excel in racquet sports management. Unlike the Professional Tennis Management (PTM) and USTA Fellowship programs, which focus on entering the industry, the RSMA program prepares participants to oversee and lead racquet sports facilities. Read More...
USTA Names U.S. Olympic Tennis Team for Paris 2024 Games
Posted: June 20, 2024 in Suppliers
ORLANDO, FL - The USTA announces the American players that will represent the U.S. Olympic Tennis Team for the Olympic Games Paris 2024. Team nominations are subject to approval by the United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee and the International Tennis Federation. The United States Paralympic tennis team will be announced in late July. Read More...
USTA Names Coaches for 2024 U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Tennis Teams
Posted: May 27, 2024 in Suppliers
ORLANDO, FL - The USTA announces its Olympic and Paralympic coaches for the upcoming Summer Games in Paris. Olympic doubles gold medalist and Davis Cup captain Bob Bryan and USTA Head of Women’s Tennis and former Billie Jean King Cup captain Kathy Rinaldi will be leading the men’s and women’s teams, respectively. Four-time Paralympian Jon Rydberg and World Team Cup coach John Devorss will lead the Paralympic men, women, and quad teams. Read More...
USTA Names Former NFL Executive Kevin Flaherty as CFO
Posted: May 16, 2024 in Suppliers
PURCHASE, N.Y. - The USTA announces that Kevin Flaherty has been named the USTA’s Chief Financial Officer. This position will report to Lew Sherr, the USTA’s CEO and Executive Director. Flaherty comes to the USTA after previously serving as the Senior Vice President of Club Finance at the National Football League (NFL). Read More...
USTA Seeks to Make U.S. the No. 1 Tennis-Playing Nation by 2035
Posted: April 3, 2024 in Suppliers
ORLANDO, FL - The USTA announces an ambitious, multi-faceted growth strategy aimed at making the United States the number one tennis-playing nation in the world by 2035, increasing the country’s tennis-playing population to 35 million total players, or 10% of the country’s population. Read More...
USPTA Announces Provisional Accreditation by USTA
Posted: March 28, 2024 in Suppliers
LAKE NONA, FL - The United States Professional Tennis Association (USPTA) announces it has received provisional accreditation by the United States Tennis Association (USTA). The USTA Accreditation Program is focused on raising the standards for the way in which tennis is delivered in the U.S. Recognizing that certified teaching professionals deliver the majority of tennis programs in the U.S., one of the goals of the accreditation program is to increase the quality and quantity of certified teaching professionals in the country. Read More...
USTA is First NGB to Partner with President’s Council on Sports, Fitness and Nutrition
Posted: March 28, 2024 in Suppliers
MIAMI, FL - Tennis is the healthiest sport in the world, and today, the United States Tennis Association (USTA), alongside Second Gentleman Douglas Emhoff and special guests from the White House, announced that the USTA is the first National Governing Body (NGB) to partner with the President’s Council on Sports, Fitness and Nutrition (PCSFN). Read More...
Social Impact Exec Ginny Ehrlich Named CEO of USTA Foundation
Posted: October 25, 2023 in Suppliers
ORLANDO, FL - The United States Tennis Association (USTA) announces that Ginny Ehrlich, an accomplished and successful leader of charitable organizations in the sports, youth and education space, has been named Chief Executive Officer of the USTA Foundation. Ehrlich will report to the USTA’s Chief Operating Officer and General Counsel Andrea Hirsch. Read More...
USTA Commits $3 Million to Refurbish up to 200 Courts Across U.S.
Posted: September 11, 2023 in Suppliers
ORLANDO, FL - In recognition of Coco Gauff’s U.S. Open women’s singles title, and to celebrate an American winning the U.S. Open, the USTA has committed to the refurbishment of up to 200 courts across the country, as part of the newly created US Open Legacy Initiative. In total, the USTA will allocate $3 million to reinvigorate courts at public parks and facilities across America, dedicated in Coco Gauff’s name. This $3 million matches the prize money for the U.S. Open Singles Champion. Read More...
USTA Launches ‘USTA Ventures’ Strategic Investment Initiative
Posted: September 1, 2023 in Suppliers
FLUSHING, N.Y. - The USTA has launched USTA Ventures through the USTA Strategic Investment Committee, which will be charged with evaluating a broad spectrum of long-term investment opportunities. The focus will be on acquiring potential equity stakes in technologies and other companies that will help to advance the USTA’s mission of promoting and developing the growth of tennis in the United States and elevating experiences at the US Open, which is owned and operated by the USTA. Read More...
USTA Names 29 Outstanding Facility Award Winners
Posted: August 28, 2023 in Suppliers
ORLANDO, FL - The USTA announces that the Lisa and Douglas Goldman Tennis Center in San Francisco was named the Featured Facility of the Year, the highest honor bestowed by the USTA on a tennis facility. The Lisa and Douglas Goldman Tennis Center was one of 29 winners of the USTA’s annual Outstanding Facility Awards program, which recognizes excellence in the construction and/or renovation of tennis facilities throughout the country. Read More...
