Team Builder
Which specialist roles this player needs, in what order, at what cost. Use it before you hire anyone.
Resources
The links that matter, and when to use them.
Everyone lists the ATP and the USTA. The useful part is knowing which site answers which question — and at what point in a season you need it.
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Our free planning tools.
Built for exactly the decisions families get stuck on. No signup, no email wall.
Tour Budget Calculator
A line-by-line season budget. Use it before committing to a tournament schedule or an academy.
Sponsor Pitch Builder
Structure a pitch brands will read. Use it before the first outreach email, not after twenty no-replies.
Schedule Planner
Lay out a training week and season block with rest built in. Use it at the start of each block.
Finding and entering tournaments
When the question is "where do we play next?"
ITF Tennis
The entry point to professional and junior international tennis. Use it for the ITF World Tennis Tour calendar, entry deadlines, withdrawal rules, and the junior circuit. The calendar is the single most important planning document for anyone considering the international route — tournaments cluster geographically, and planning a swing rather than one-off trips is where the savings are.
8–12 weeks before a planned block, because entry deadlines sit roughly 4 weeks out and flights cost more after that.
USTA
For US players, the governing body for sectional and national junior competition, rankings, and the pathway structure. Also where to confirm the current rules on eligibility, age divisions, and the national ranking formula, which changes more often than most families realise.
Planning the domestic calendar, and any time someone tells you "the ranking rules work like X" — verify it at the source.
ATP Tour
Pro men's calendar, rankings, and the points structure. Most useful to developing players as a reality check: look at the ranking required to enter qualifying at the level you're aiming for, and work backwards from there.
Modelling a professional pathway, or sanity-checking what a ranking goal actually buys you in terms of access.
WTA Tennis
The equivalent for women's professional tennis — calendar, rankings, points breakdown, and entry thresholds. Same use case: understand what a given ranking unlocks before setting it as a goal.
Building a multi-year pathway model, or deciding between college and the pro route.
Rankings, recruiting, and getting seen
When the question is "where do we actually stand?"
UTR Sports
A level-based rating rather than a ranking, calculated from match results regardless of event type. It's the most honest answer to "how good is this player, really" — and it's the number college coaches look at first. Useful for finding appropriately matched competition rather than chasing points at events that are too easy or too hard.
Choosing tournaments, assessing college fit, or when a family's self-assessment and reality have drifted apart.
Tennis Recruiting Network
The de facto hub for US college recruiting: player profiles, class rankings, commitment lists, and which programs took which level of player in previous years. The commitment history is the valuable part — it tells you the realistic bar for each program rather than the aspirational one.
From sophomore year onward, and before writing a single college coach — target the programs your level actually matches.
Tennis Abstract
Deep match statistics and historical data for professional tennis. For players and coaches it's a tactical research tool: serve and return splits, surface performance, and how matches at the top are actually won — which is usually less dramatic than highlight reels suggest.
Building a game-style model, or settling a coaching argument with data.
Staying informed
Reading that's worth the time.
Tennis.com
Broad coverage of the professional game plus instruction and gear content. Good for keeping a player connected to the sport beyond their own results, which matters more than it sounds during a long season.
Tennis Majors
Tour news with a stronger international and historical angle. Useful context on how careers actually unfold — including the long, unglamorous middle part that nobody posts about.
Our network
Six properties, six different jobs.
Pro Tennis Team is one part of a wider tennis network. Each site covers something we deliberately don't.
Big Tennis
Big-picture tennis news, ideas, and fan culture. Go here for the state of the sport rather than the state of your season.
Paradise Tennis
Tennis travel, resorts, camps, and destination guides. Genuinely useful when planning a warm-weather training block or a family trip that doubles as court time.
Top Tennis Coach
Coach profiles, training resources, and player development material. Start here when you're looking for a coach rather than a plan.
Six Love Tennis
Tennis lifestyle, stories, and community features — the human side of the sport.
TennisMatch
Find courts and hitting partners wherever you are. Solves a specific, recurring problem: you're in a new city for a tournament and need a hit tomorrow morning.
RunMyCourts
Club and court management software. For the people running the facility rather than training at it — booking, members, courts, and scheduling.
One page, free
The Player's Team Checklist
The 12 roles around a competitive player, what each costs, and the order to add them in.
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