Information Pack

October 2020
 Our Mission

To become the most popular

beach sport worldwide
 Table of Contents

Benefits of Beach Tennis Slide 4

Developing a Beach Tennis Programme Slide 8

ITF Beach Tennis Tours Slide 17

Growth of the ITF Beach Tennis Slide 23

Applying for an ITF Beach Tennis Event Slide 31

 Benefits of
Beach Tennis

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 Benefits of Playing Beach Tennis

Minimal equipment
Easy to learn Suitable for all ages
required

Improves health Teamwork and

Exciting locations
and fitness friendships
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 Benefits to National Associations
PARTICIPATION GROWTH as Beach
Tennis is a very accessible sport and
can attract players of all ages and
abilities resulting in high
participation numbers.
WORKING OPPORTUNITIES for
tennis tournament staff such as
referees, chair umpires, line umpires
and court maintenance staff.

REVENUE OPPORTUNITIES for

HOSTING OPPORTUNITIES for clubs
National Associations and
and organisations
Tournament Organisers

PROMOTIONAL OPPORTUNITIES for

manufacturers and sponsors

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Tennis. Theo Irigaray

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Developing a Beach
Tennis Programme

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Developing a Beach Tennis Programme
1. Set up permanent courts

2. Introduce floodlights

3. Junior and grassroot participation

4. Create a national team

5. Collaborate with hotels/other sports

6. Promote online
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 1. Set up permanent courts

• Permanent courts, or temporary courts

with fixed times each week, will
encourage local participation.
• Local players can plan to play beach
tennis like they would any other sport
and book sessions with friends.
• Once the courts/club become
established, you could consider charging
a membership fee.
• A café/bar close to the courts could help
to bring in extra revenue.

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2. Introduce floodlights

• Floodlights allow courts to be

available for longer each day.
• Local players of all ages who
work/study during the day will be
able to play during the evenings.
• This in turn can create more
revenue in terms of court fees.

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3. Encourage grassroots participation

• Introduce beach tennis in schools and

universities to allow local young people to
become familiar with the sport.
• Hold national tournaments and eventually
ITF Beach Tennis Junior tournaments which
will enable players to get an ITF ranking.
• Junior players who have competed at ITF
Beach Tennis events will then be able to
progress naturally to the ITF Beach Tennis
Tour (Pro).
• In addition to juniors, there is great potential
to develop grassroot Beach Tennis amongst
all age levels, including senior players.

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4. Create a national team

• Create a national team (minimum 2 male

and 2 female players) and aim for the ITF
Beach Tennis World Cup.
• Qualification is via Regional Cups (or rankings
where no Regional Cup is held) and there are
also a small number of Wild Cards on offer.
• World and Regional Cups, as well as
multisport events such as the ANOC World
Beach Games, give players the opportunity
to represent their country on an
international scale, and lift the profile of
beach tennis in that nation.

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5. Collaborate with hotels and/or other sports
events
• Contact hotels and see if it is possible
to install beach tennis courts.
• Hotels look for ways to entertain
guests and beach tennis courts could
not only provide entertainment for
the whole family, but also help the
hotel to gain more clients.
• Holding a beach tennis exhibition at
another sporting event can help to
increase the exposure of beach tennis
and encourage others to try the sport.

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6. Promote online
• Create social media channels for beach tennis at
your National Association or club to try to expand
your base.
• Connect with other beach tennis accounts on
social media.
• Join the ITF Beach Tennis Facebook group
(https://bit.ly/2UBUOVj) and post about your new
club/courts.

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Beach Tennis Beach tennis
Install beach
Revenue Cycle becomes more
popular and
1 tennis courts
and start to
more sign-ups to
build a beach
the local club
tennis
provide more
community
revenue
5

2
Hold an ITF prize
Practice
money event which
national-level
will raise the profile
beach tennis and
of the location and
hold an ITF BT10
attract international
tournament
players
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Players gain ITF
ranking points
and more local
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players are
inspired to take
up beach tennis 16
 ITF Beach
Tennis Tours

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ITF Beach Tennis World Tour
Tour events
500 points to winners, US$35,000-$100,000
prize money, tournaments form part of ITF
Sand Series Major Events Portfolio.

400 points to winners, US$35,000-$100,000

BT400 prize money

BT200 200 points to winners, US$15,000 prize money

BT100 100 points to winners, US$10,000 prize money

BT50 50 points to winners, US$4,000 prize money

BT10 10 points to winners, no prize money

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ITF Beach Tennis World Tour

Championships
Flagship individual (pairs) tournament. Anyone
can enter the tournament and the usual System
World Championships of Merit is applied to determine entry based on
the combined ranking of each pair.

Flagship regional individual (pairs) tournaments.

Regional Championships Currently Regional Championships do not
provide a qualification route to the World
Championships.

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ITF Beach Tennis World Tour World Cup Regional Distribution Quota

2
Cups Africa
1
2
Wild
World Cup Asia
Card

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2 Nations 1
Regional Cups South
Oceania
America

2
North/Centr 6
al America Europe
& Caribbean

• The World Cup is a Nation v Nation event where teams (made up of a maximum 3 men and 3 women) compete for the World Cup title.
Rubbers consist of Men’s Doubles, Women’s Doubles and Mixed Doubles matches.
• Regional Cups are a new event introduced as part of the World Cup Qualification System where Regional Cups are the primary
qualification route for the World Cup in accordance with the Regional Distribution Quota. If Regional Cup(s) are not staged, entered
teams will be selected based on merit (combined ranking of nominated male and female players)

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 ITF Beach Tennis Junior Tour

Tour events Championships Cups

World World Cup

Championships

Regional
Championships Regional Cups
BTJ100

Junior players have the chance to earn

BTJ100 offers 100 points to the winners
Regional and World Championships ranking points at World and Regional
and is an introductory category for the
also form part of the ITF Beach Tennis Cups. The World Cup Qualification
Junior Tour with more categories to
Junior Tour. System does not yet apply to the Junior
follow in due course
Tour.

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ANOC World Beach Games
• The ANOC World Beach Games is an
international beach multi-sport event
organised by the Association of National
Olympic Committees.
• Beach Tennis was one of 13 sports included
in the inaugural edition of the Games which
took place in Doha, Qatar in October 2019.
• Players from total of 15 nations took part
across the Men’s, Women’s and Mixed
Doubles Beach Tennis events.

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Growth of
ITF Beach
Tennis

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 Key Highlights

2007 2008 2009 2012 2013 2018 2019 2020 2021

• First European • ITF Beach • First ITF Beach • First ITF Beach • First Pan • First African • Inaugural ANOC • Introduction of • World Cup
Beach Tennis Tennis Tour Tennis World Tennis World American Championships, World Beach the ITF Beach qualification
Championships Championships Team Championships held in Tunisia Games Tennis Junior pathway to be
begins
in Italy in Italy Championship in Brazil • New ITF Beach Tour initiated
(now World Tennis brand • Digitalisation of • Launch of the
Cup) in Russia created ITF Beach Tennis Sand Series
Tour

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 ITF Beach Tennis Tournaments per Year (2008-2019)
400

350
319
302 307
300 2,183 = total number 274 279
of tournaments
250
207
200
167
152
150

100 91

48
50
14 23
0
2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019
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 Prize Money (USD) per Year (2008-2019)
2019 $784,000
2018 $655,000
2017 $563,500
2016 $439,000
2015 $427,449
2014 $473,900 $4,791,616 = total
2013
combined prize money
$424,002
2012 $409,140
2011 $267,348
2010 $162,502
2009 $76,896
2008 $108,879

$0 $100,000 $200,000 $300,000 $400,000 $500,000 $600,000 $700,000 $800,000 $900,000

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Host Nations per Year (2008-2019)

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50 nations = total number of 36 37 36
different nations between 2008-2019 34 34
35
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30 28 28

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20 19

15 13

10
7
5 3

0
2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019
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*50 nations held ITF
Beach Tennis
tournaments
between 2008-2019

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*28 new nations
receiving equipment
as part of the ITF
Beach Tennis Global
Development
Programme

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 ITF Beach Tennis Players

4,093 active* players of 75 different nationalities**

Men Women
2,487 players, 1,606 players,
65 nationalities 59 nationalities

Click to view the current

ITF Beach Tennis World
Tour Rankings

*players who have played at least one ITF Beach Tennis tournament
**statistics are from the 2019 year-end rankings 30
Applying for
an ITF Event

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Steps to follow to A. Let us know you are interested by emailing provisional dates
and tournament categories to beach@itftennis.com
apply for an ITF
Beach Tennis event
B. Familiarise yourself with all COVID-19 and Return to Beach
Tennis Protocols *

C. Submit the tournament documentation required: 1. Application

Form 2. Fact Sheet 3. Risk Assessment 4. Data Protection
Agreement. **

D. Tournament documentation is reviewed and an eligibility and

accessibility assessment of the tournament location is carried out
before the tournament is approved

*All key information including a step by step guide to applying for events can be found in the ITF Beach Tennis COVID-19 Booklet: https://www.itftennis.com/media/3968/itf-beach-covid-
19-booklet.pdf
**All applications must be endorsed and signed by the relevant National Association 32
 THANK
YOU

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