By Tennis Now | @TennisNow | Wednesday, July 17, 2024Photo credit score: Worldwide Tennis Corridor of Fame
A mixed males’s and girls’s professional event will bloom on Newport’s historic garden.
Skilled tennis will return to the Newport, R.I. in 2025 because the Worldwide Tennis Corridor of Fame right this moment introduced a revamped Corridor of Fame Open, together with ATP Challenger 125 and WTA 125 stage tournaments. .
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Scheduled for July 6-13, 2025, the Corridor of Fame Open will develop into simply the second mixed males’s and girls’s 125 stage occasion in the US.
It is going to be the one grass court docket cease on the Hologic WTA Tour exterior of Europe, and the primary girls’s skilled event on the ITHF for the reason that Virginia Slims of Newport concluded in 1990. Equal prize cash can be awarded to each the lads’s and girls’s attracts.
“The Worldwide Tennis Corridor of Fame is a world illustration of the game, and there’s no higher strategy to replicate that worldwide influence than to welcome girls’s skilled tennis again to Newport,” stated Corridor of Fame Open Event Director Brewer Rowe. “We’re happy to welcome the Hologic WTA Tour in live performance with our ATP companions and are thrilled to offer followers with double the tennis beginning subsequent summer season.”
“Elite tennis has been part of Newport’s historical past since 1881. The 2025 Corridor of Fame Open represents the subsequent thrilling chapter within the Worldwide Tennis Corridor of Fame’s wealthy historical past of honoring the game,” said ITHF CEO Dan Faber. “Our distinctive venue and traditions will proceed to ship an distinctive expertise for tennis followers in New England.”
Each the ATP Challenger and WTA 125 attracts will include 32 singles gamers and 16 doubles groups.
The WTA occasion will characteristic an 8-player qualifying draw, with a 24-player qualifying draw for the Challenger Tour occasion .
Matches can be performed on 5 courts concurrently for at the least 4 days of motion.
The Worldwide Tennis Corridor of Fame Induction Ceremony and Celebration will stay in Newport and moved to August, with extra occasion particulars to be introduced.
