Corridor of Fame to Host Mixed ATP and WTA Tennis Match in 2025

A mixed males’s and ladies’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 at present introduced a revamped Corridor of Fame Open, together with ATP Challenger 125 and WTA 125 degree tournaments.

Scheduled for July 6-13, 2025, the Corridor of Fame Open will turn out to be simply the second mixed males’s and ladies’s 125 degree occasion in the US.

It will likely be the one grass courtroom 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 might be awarded to each the lads’s and ladies’s attracts.

“The Worldwide Tennis Corridor of Fame is a world illustration of the game, and there’s no higher strategy to mirror that worldwide affect than to welcome girls’s skilled tennis again to Newport,” stated Corridor of Fame Open Match 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 following thrilling chapter within the Worldwide Tennis Corridor of Fame’s wealthy historical past of honoring the game,” acknowledged 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 might be performed on 5 courts concurrently for at the very 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.