By Tennis Now | @Tennis_Now | Monday, December 9, 2024
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In its intention to make tennis extra accessible, the USTA is investing in Court docket 16.
The USTA at present introduced that its sinvestment initiative USTA Ventures has invested in Court docket 16, a New York-based firm that gives tennis in distinctive and technologically superior codecs via its community of indoor tennis golf equipment.
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Based in Brooklyn in 2014, Court docket 16’s presence now consists of places in Lengthy Island Metropolis, Downtown Brooklyn, Manhattan’s Monetary District, and forthcoming places in Philadelphia and Westchester’s Ridge Hill, opening in 2025. Court docket 16 supplies an revolutionary and inclusive tennis expertise, the place children, adults and households can join, be taught and develop each on and off the courtroom. Delivering dynamic tennis programming, Court docket 16’s cutting-edge curriculum builds a robust technical basis, develops well-rounded athletes, and evokes a real ardour for the game.
Execs, together with Carlos Alcaraz, Felix Auger-Aliassime and Leylah Fernandez have performed clinics at Court docket 16 in Lengthy Island Metropolis.
“Court docket 16’s distinctive programming mannequin creates larger accessibility for our sport, delivering tennis and constructing neighborhood in places that will not in any other case have entry resulting from area limitations or monetary constraints,” mentioned Ted Loehrke, Managing Director, Part Partnerships, USTA. “Our mission is rising tennis to encourage more healthy individuals and communities in every single place, and Court docket 16 has proven that it may possibly assist us to ship this wonderful sport year-round to gamers and potential gamers in main markets throughout the nation.”
It’s the second funding made by the USTA Strategic Funding Committee, via USTA Ventures.
Earlier this yr, USTA Ventures introduced its funding in PlayReplay, a tennis expertise firm that includes an digital line-calling (ELC) system set to extend entry to correct, user-friendly ELC for junior, grownup and leisure play nationwide. Fashioned in 2023, the committee is “centered on buying fairness stakes in applied sciences and different firms that may assist advance the USTA’s mission,” the USTA mentioned in a press release.
