Racket Sports Industry News August 2025

Your One-Stop Event Resource for Racquet Sports

The top Racket Business menu includes the Events button. We encourage our readers to use this button as a helpful resource when planning for education, travel, and networking. Here is what you can find under Events:

• National and international racquet sports events

• Grand Slam events with ticket information

• Four women-specific conferences (3 in the USA, 1 in the UK)

• International events in London, Barcelona, Munich, Hamburg, Costa Rica, and Milan.

At the top of the page, we also list training courses and certification workshops for tennis, pickleball, padel, platform tennis, and cardio tennis.

RSPA CEO Brian Dillman said during the RSPA Townhall webinar last month:
“Your RSPA Network is Your Net Worth!” We are saying:

“Reutilizing Pickleball courts
to reconnect with the sport you love!”

From the LITE TENNIS website:

“Lite Tennis is real tennis played on a pickleball court. We adapted the ball, not the racquet, so every swing is a long, natural tennis stroke.
Small court tennis - Lite Tennis - will be an immediate solution to save tennis from pickleball courts replacing existing tennis courts across the United States.”

What is LITE TENNIS? Video

Now available: colorful green tone “Lite Tennis" performance balls.

These one-of-a-kind foam balls with our exclusive formulated coating are specially designed for playing tennis on a pickleball court!

• Sports Business Journal
  Audience Analysis: Wimbledon starts hot; F1 stays hot; ION hot even without Caitlin Clark

• HEAD Sport
  Join CLUB HEAD for a Chance to Win a SPEED Tennis Racquet + Bag!

• yahoo!sport
  Tennis fans dudded as Novak Djokovic and Jannik Sinner opt out in 'disastrous' $14m blow

• AP
  Wimbledon gets rid of line judges in favor of recorded voices announcing electronic calls

• 14th Annual OCCTA Tennis Seminar had 168 Attendees!

  

• ZME SCIENCE
  Tennis May Add Nearly 10 Years to Your Life and Most People Are Ignoring It

• Sports Business Journal
  Wimbledon apologizes for ‘human error’ after shutting off AI line-judge tech during match

• CourtReserve
  July’s Release Notes

• RacquetX
  Philadelphia City Series Was a Hit, L.A. You’re Up Next!

• Sports Business Journal
  United Pickleball Association partners with PlayReplay for ELC tech

• tennishead
  Serena Williams’ former coach calls for tennis rule change that would have seen Carlos Alcaraz lose Roland Garros final

• MISSISSAUGA
  Match point: Mississauga’s tennis scene is serving up grand slam goals

• RSPA
  RSPA Pickleball Certification to Include DUPR Coach

• CDT Racquet Works
  Industry Leader Ryan Johnson Named Senior Director of Racquet Works 
  

INTENNSE Tennis

The kind of excitement the INTENNSE folks are creating in the ‘Tennis Capital of the World’ (Atlanta, Georgia) is amazing.

The Battle for Georgia Highlights INTENNSE™ Week 4

Peachtree TV and Gray Media Announce Broadcast Partnership to Serve Up INTENNSE Tennis in Georgia

Follow INTENNSE:
Instagram: @INTENNSEtennis
Twitter/X: @INTENNSEtennis
Facebook: /INTENNSE

“There's no way around hard work. Embrace it.”

Roger Federer

“I try to stay fit and play as often as possible. The less I do, the worse it is for my body.”

Tommy Haas