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 Courtroom 16.
The USTA at this time introduced that its sinvestment initiative USTA Ventures has invested in Courtroom 16, a New York-based firm that gives tennis in distinctive and technologically superior codecs by its community of indoor tennis golf equipment.
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Based in Brooklyn in 2014, Courtroom 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. Courtroom 16 supplies an revolutionary and inclusive tennis expertise, the place youngsters, adults and households can join, study and develop each on and off the court docket. Delivering dynamic tennis programming, Courtroom 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 carried out clinics at Courtroom 16 in Lengthy Island Metropolis.
“Courtroom 16’s distinctive programming mannequin creates better accessibility for our sport, delivering tennis and constructing group in areas that won’t in any other case have entry as a result of house limitations or monetary constraints,” mentioned Ted Loehrke, Managing Director, Part Partnerships, USTA. “Our mission is rising tennis to encourage more healthy folks and communities in every single place, and Courtroom 16 has proven that it may 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 USTA Ventures.
Earlier this 12 months, 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 an announcement.
