By Tennis Now | @Tennis_Now | Monday, December 9, 2024
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In its goal to make tennis extra accessible, the USTA is investing in Court docket 16.
The USTA right now 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 by means of its community of indoor tennis golf equipment.
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Based in Brooklyn in 2014, Court docket 16’s presence now consists of areas in Lengthy Island Metropolis, Downtown Brooklyn, Manhattan’s Monetary District, and forthcoming areas in Philadelphia and Westchester’s Ridge Hill, opening in 2025. Court docket 16 gives an modern and inclusive tennis expertise, the place children, adults and households can join, be taught and develop each on and off the court docket. 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.
Professionals, 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 areas that won’t in any other case have entry as a result of house limitations or monetary constraints,” stated Ted Loehrke, Managing Director, Part Partnerships, USTA. “Our mission is rising tennis to encourage more healthy individuals and communities all over the place, and Court docket 16 has proven that it could actually assist us to ship this superb 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, by means of USTA Ventures.
Earlier this 12 months, USTA Ventures introduced its funding in PlayReplay, a tennis know-how 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. Shaped in 2023, the committee is “targeted on buying fairness stakes in applied sciences and different corporations that can assist advance the USTA’s mission,” the USTA stated in a press release.
