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 provides 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, Courtroom 16’s presence now contains places in Lengthy Island Metropolis, Downtown Brooklyn, Manhattan’s Monetary District, and forthcoming places in Philadelphia and Westchester’s Ridge Hill, opening in 2025. Courtroom 16 gives an revolutionary and inclusive tennis expertise, the place youngsters, adults and households can join, study and develop each on and off the courtroom. Delivering dynamic tennis programming, Courtroom 16’s cutting-edge curriculum builds a robust technical basis, develops well-rounded athletes, and conjures up a real ardour for the game.
Professionals, 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 higher accessibility for our sport, delivering tennis and constructing neighborhood in places that will not in any other case have entry resulting from 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 all over the place, and Courtroom 16 has proven that it may well 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 yr, 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. Fashioned in 2023, the committee is “targeted on buying fairness stakes in applied sciences and different firms that may assist advance the USTA’s mission,” the USTA mentioned in an announcement.