Hello dear readers, friends, and racket sports enthusiasts.

Welcome to the September edition of Racket Business. We are pleased to announce that you can talk to Rich Neher at the USPTA’s WRC24 conference in the California desert town of Rancho Mirage on September 16. This will be the biggest racquet sports education and networking event of the year and you should consider joining.

This month, Racket Business is featuring some explosive content, like Cheating In Junior Tennis, and USTA Sections' Undeclared War On Private Clubs and Independent Teaching Pros.

Rich takes his hat off to Novak Djokovic for highlighting some major concerns for the tennis industry whilst Tim brings you a report on the new rankings systems and professionalism being introduced to pickleball.

To our delight ‘The Commish’ got back in touch and he’s finally discovered Chat GPT with hilarious consequences whilst regular writer Gary Horvath takes a more serious look at the need for better data in tennis.

Our regular coaching expert Robert Davis explains how Ed Krass has blended innovation and fun for the past 40 years to make tennis more enjoyable.

At this point, we want to bring a quick shout-out to our fabulous advertisers. We are extremely happy that NGI Sports have continued to promote their services through Racket Business. We like their motto “Whether a champion in training, a weekend warrior, or a bit of both — NGI Sports provides the right surface to up your game.”

As you know, CourtReserve is a leading club management platform powering tennis and pickleball facilities across North America. Trusted by over 1,500 clubs and serving 2.5 million players, our all-in-one solution streamlines reservations, communication, payments, and more.

Cesar Andrade, CEO of RacquetsAppSuite, tells us that Racquets!™ the AI-powered digital assistant apps suite delivering exponential increase in player participation, court occupancy, and provider's business income is now available at Apple and Android stores. Nice!

Oncourt Offcourt is celebrating 30 years in business. Look at these numbers: 10 million customers since 1994. $1,000,000 donated to various grassroots programs. 4 million YouTube views.

We’re glad to hear that Cruise Control Gear, the luxury tennis and activewear brand specializing in performance apparel for men, women, and kids, is doing well. I love their motto “Look Good, play better on Cruise Control!” Co-owner Candice Kolins says, “Use promo code CongaSports for 20% off.”

We also want to welcome our new advertiser Tennibot (scroll down), the great company that makes that ball-collecting robot. With Tennibot, time spent on ball collection goes down to almost zero!

Have a good September and do what you do best: Growing racket sports!!

Rich & Tim

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Please note that all of our content is created by human professionals. While we utilize Generative AI technology to assist in correcting syntax and grammar, our articles are written entirely by our team of experts. We value the expertise and creativity of our human writers in delivering high-quality content to our readers. (While the original Commish is an expert tennis teaching professional, their contribution this month is purposely AI-generated, as they explain at the beginning of their article.)