Melbourne, 31 October 2023 | tennis.com.au

The 2024 Aggressive Play calendar launches as we speak, providing level-based enjoying alternatives for all Australians.

The calendar contains Tennis Australia-endorsed occasions going down across the nation, aiming to make sure tennis attracts and retains gamers of all skills while creating future champions.

The 2024 calendar will construct on the success of the Junior Tour and Progress Sequence tournaments following their introduction this 12 months. The primary Australian Junior Tour and Progress Sequence Masters factors races are set to finish on 7 November 2023, with up to date Chief Boards to be launched on Friday 10 November and Monday 13 November respectively. Australian Masters occasions will likely be held in Melbourne from 2 December 2023 the December Showdown.

“Our goal is to develop a calendar that helps gamers in any respect ranges of the enjoying pathway,” mentioned Tennis Australia Chief Tennis Officer Tom Larner.

“Following our transition to a single ranking system in 2022, the 2024 calendar will proceed to give attention to making a constructive enjoying surroundings for all contributors of the game, offering alternatives for gamers to compete and develop their expertise at a stage that’s acceptable to them.

“We’re excited to see extra gamers, enjoying extra tennis, extra of the time with all kinds of alternatives on provide across the nation.”

2024 calendar highlights

• The preliminary launch of the Australian Aggressive Play calendar will see 562 tournaments be added, encompassing Juniors, Open, Masters and IE&D tournaments
• The Australian Junior Tour will comprise of 288 tournaments resulting in the Junior Tour Masters, the end-of-year factors race for junior gamers
• The Australian Junior Worldwide calendar will comprise of 16 ITF Junior tournaments held throughout the nation, offering a aggressive pathway for junior gamers to the elite junior stage
• The Australian Progress Sequence connects 20 Open Signature and Premier Sequence tournaments to the Australian Professional Tour
• The Australian Professional Tour calendar will embody 15 tournaments overlaying each state and territory, offering our elite gamers with a chance to check themselves in opposition to a number of the greatest on the ITF World Tennis Tour, ATP Challenger Tour or WTA tour.

2023 Aggressive Play by the numbers to date

 The 2023 Aggressive Play calendar has seen:

• 747 Tennis Australia-endorsed tournaments happen so far
• 18,038 distinctive gamers take part up 33 per cent on 2022
• A complete of 64,906 entries up 14 per cent on 2022
• 89,667 Australian gamers with a UTR Score.

Get able to compete as we speak!