The Intercollegiate Tennis Affiliation (ITA), the governing physique and coaches affiliation for school tennis, introduced that the Worldwide Tennis Federation (ITF) World Tennis Quantity (WTN) is now the unique official ranking of the ITA and school tennis.
“The worldwide tennis eco-system and the panorama of American school athletics are each evolving,” mentioned ITA Chief Govt Officer Dr. Timothy Russell. “In persevering with to empower school tennis coaches in any respect ranges to ship vibrant tennis applications which might be important to their school communities and transformational for his or her student-athletes, our Affiliation continues to strengthen nationwide and worldwide partnerships. These embrace built-in expertise platforms and instruments such because the WTN that present profit to our members and improve tennis as one of the vibrant school sports activities.”
The ITF World Tennis Quantity offers a worldwide ranking customary for tennis gamers utilizing a 40-1 scale, with 40 being a newbie participant and 1 being an elite skilled. The size is for all gamers, no matter age, gender, or skill. Gamers can have separate ITF World Tennis Numbers for singles and doubles.
1.4 million public ITF participant profiles have already been launched on worldtennisnumber.com, and 152 nations have signed an settlement with the ITF to turn into a part of the WTN ranking system.
David Haggerty, ITF President, mentioned: “Tennis is without doubt one of the three hottest sports activities globally. School tennis is a splendidly essential a part of the game, an aspirational purpose for junior tennis gamers worldwide and a viable pathway to skilled tennis. The ITF applauds the Intercollegiate Tennis Affiliation for its excellent management in our world enterprise and may be very excited in regards to the unifying imaginative and prescient for the way collectively we are able to advance the sport, particularly in utilizing the World Tennis Quantity in addition to selling different shared initiatives shifting ahead.”
Bubba Cunningham, Director of Athletics on the College of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and a newly appointed member of the USA Olympic and Paralympic Committee, mentioned, “School tennis and the ITA being aligned with the ITF because the worldwide governing physique of the game shall be an awesome benefit to our applications and student-athletes. The ITA’s robust alliance with the USTA, because the governing physique of tennis in America, can be being seen within the enviornment of intercollegiate athletics and past as each a management mannequin for at this time’s ever-changing panorama and a pre-eminent paradigm for the longer term success of Olympic sports activities on school campuses.”
Craig Morris, Chief Govt of Group Tennis of the USA Tennis Affiliation (USTA), remarks that, “The World Tennis Quantity, as developed by the Worldwide Tennis Federation (ITF) and adopted by USTA and 152 tennis federations across the globe, will assist school groups and coaches, in addition to present and potential student-athletes, and can improve the consequential position of tennis inside school and college athletic applications.”
The WTN is getting used within the Participant Improvement area as follows: (1) for ITF Juniors the WTN is the second acceptance standards in ITF World Tennis Tour Junior Tournaments; (2) for ITF World Tennis Tour Occasions within the U.S. the WTN is getting used to calculate the USTA’s High 500 record; and, (3) as of 2023, the USTA has designated the WTN because the unique ranking permitted to be used in USTA junior tournaments. The WTN is now one other choice to be utilized to help with seeding, choice, grouping, and flighting in junior tournaments across the nation.
All school tennis gamers will obtain a WTN, because the ITA shares school match outcomes with the ITF. World Tennis Numbers are displayed on the worldtennisnumber.com web site. Coming this month, the ITA may also show the World Tennis Numbers of school gamers on their particular person ITA profiles, which shall be discovered on the Groups part of the ITA web site.
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