Pretoria gets new international tennis event
A new professional tennis tournament that should attract interest from around the world, will be presented at the Tuks Tennis Club later this year.
The number of international tennis events in South Africa continues to grow with the launch of the new Tennis SA TUKS International.
This tournament is set to take place at the University of Pretoria TuksTennis facility, with the main draw getting underway from the 1st October 2019.
The Tennis SA TUKS International is a combined $15 000 prize money tournament ($15 000 prize money for men and $15 000 prize money for women) and has been made possible thanks to a tri-partite partnership between TSA, the (ITF) Grand Slam Development Fund and TuksSport at the University of Pretoria.
This new local event will form part of the ITF World Tennis Tour, which is the umbrella name for all former ITF pro circuit and junior circuit tournaments and serves as the ITF’s pathway from the junior game into the elite levels of professional tennis.
It becomes the third new ITF World Tennis Tour event to be added to the local international tournament schedule in 2019 – following from the Junior Grade A event in Cape Town in September – one of only six such blue chip junior events in the world, as well as the Spring Open – another $15 000 combined prize money international tournament, taking place in Johannesburg a week later.
TSA CEO Richard Glover acknowledged that while more has to be done by the Federation to create international tennis opportunities in the country, the new event continues the upwards trajectory for the sport.
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