American sports

United States Tennis Association

The United States Tennis Association (USTA), previously known as the United States National Lawn Tennis Association, was established by a small group of tennis club members in a meeting held at the Fifth Avenue Hotel in New York City. USTA was created to standardize rules and regulations and to promote the sport of tennis in the United States. The USTA runs the USTA National Tennis Center which hosts the US Open every year.

Mission Statement: To Promote and Develop the Growth of Tennis
The United States Tennis Association (USTA) is the national governing body for the sport of tennis and the recognized leader in promoting and developing the sport’s growth on every level in the United States, from local communities to the crown jewel of the professional game, the US Open.

Established in 1881, the USTA is a progressive and diverse not-for-profit organization whose volunteers, professional staff, and financial resources support a single mission: to promote and develop the growth of tennis.

The USTA is the largest tennis organization in the world, with 17 geographical sections, more than 665,000 individual members and 7,000 organizational members, thousands of volunteers, and a professional staff dedicated to growing the game.

1. Community Tennis

Community Tennis strives to grow tennis at every level with a goal of making the game accessible to everyone. It supports a wide range of programs designed to help people learn the game, play the game, and benefit from its many health/fitness and social benefits.

Community Tennis is also working hand in hand with the USTA’s seventeen sections, committed volunteers, and industry partners on the largest new player initiative that tennis, or any other sport, has ever conducted—to promote the benefits of tennis to new players and drive them to one of the thousands of Tennis Welcome Center facilities across the country that offer introductory group lessons and playing opportunities for new or lapsed players.

2. Professional Tennis

Professional Tennis manages all aspects of the USTA’s involvement in the professional sport, including the US Open — the world’s largest attended annual sporting event — and the recently launched US Open Series, which links eleven summer tournaments to the US Open.

It also oversees three professional tour events, ninety-six Pro Circuit events nationwide, all operations of the USTA National Tennis Center — the world’s largest public tennis facility and home of the US Open — and it manages and selects the U.S. teams for Davis Cup, Fed Cup, the Olympics, and the Paralympic Games.

Designed to operate as a true sports marketing, entertainment, and media group, Professional Tennis generates — through television, sponsorship, ticket sales, merchandising, membership, and advanced media — the revenue for funding the USTA mission and works to increase the popularity of the pro game to positively affect player participation.

3. USA Tennis High Performance/USTA Pro Circuit

USA Tennis High Performance facilitates the development of world-class American champions by providing promising players with access to the best training, coaching, and competition. This mission is facilitated through enhanced coaching education programs, top supplemental coaching in men’s and women’s tennis, and junior competition programs on the national and international level.

USA Tennis High Performance works closely with the USTA Pro Circuit, the world’s largest professional tour for tennis development, which provides the next generation of American champions with the opportunity to play against world-class competition without having to travel abroad.

4. Diversity: Multicultural Focus

Embracing diversity and encouraging multicultural outreach efforts is essential to achieving the USTA mission to grow the sport of tennis. The USTA is committed to fostering a tennis environment that is more inclusive and inviting to all people. In working to expand the image of tennis, the USTA is focused on broadening and increasing multicultural participation in the sport and serving as a model for all organizations that aspire to successful growth and an inclusive environment.