The UTR International Pro Tennis Tour is expanding in Germany and will host its first international tennis tournament on German soil from July 26 to August 1, 2021, at the facilities of the PMTR Tennis Academy and the KHTC Mülheim an der Ruhr. Forty top international players will compete in this inaugural UTR International Pro Tennis Tour (PTT) tournament in Germany.
A fantastic commitment from our cooperation partner! We'd like to tell you more about the tournament, and of course about the UTR International Pro Tennis Tour. This tournament series aims to give up-and-coming young tennis talents the opportunity to gain international tournament experience under very attractive financial conditions.
The UTR International Pro Tennis Tour is an international tournament series from Universal Tennis in the USA, which, starting in January 2021, plans to hold 450 tournaments worldwide over the next three years with a $20 million budget.
In Mülheim an der Ruhr, in cooperation with the PMTR Tennis Academy, the first tournament on German soil will take place as part of this European expansion.
“It’s always particularly exciting to bring the UTR tournament series to a new country. With our new presence in Germany, we can further expand our presence in Europe,” says Mark Leschly, Chairman and CEO of Universal Tennis.
“We are very pleased to be part of the global expansion of the UTR Pro Tennis Tour for top international players in Europe. It’s fantastic that there is now a venue in Germany where the UTR Pro Tennis Tour enables up-and-coming players to gain professional international tournament experience worldwide and provides them with the best possible support on their sporting career path,” says Uwe Schumann, owner and managing director of the PMTR Tennis Academy in Mülheim an der Ruhr
. The goal of the UTR PTT tournament series is to support aspiring international professional players in realizing their sporting dreams through professional tennis tournaments worldwide and attractive prize money. Each tournament and competition offers a total prize purse of $20,000. The tournament in Mülheim will feature a 20-player men’s and a 20-player women’s draw.
Half of the players participating in Mülheim are ranked between 633 and 1500 in the world. The field is international. Billy Harris (ATP 671) and Lexie Stevens (WTA 633) are the top seeds.
Eleven German players are also participating.
To give players as much international tournament match experience as possible, UTR PTT tournaments are generally played with international chair umpires in round-robin group stages from Monday to Friday; meaning four matches are played each day on two courts. The semifinals are played on Saturday and the finals on Sunday.
Tournaments start daily at 10:00 AM. Admission is free.
Further information can be found at www.universaltennis.com/ptt-tournaments or www.universaltennis.com/pro-tennis . The tournament will be streamed live on YouTube starting Monday.
What is the UTR Pro Tennis Tour (PTT)? The UTR Pro Tennis Tour officially launched on January 1, 2021, with a three-year commitment of over $20 million to support tennis worldwide through prize money, event support, technology, and attractive competitive playing opportunities. Universal Tennis owns and operates the UTR Pro Tennis Tour (PTT), responsible for its rules and regulations, code of conduct, tournament format, and related streaming and advertising. The UTR Pro Tennis Tour was created to provide a "development tour for aspiring professional players." Its goal is to support emerging and aspiring professional tennis players in pursuing their sporting dreams through worldwide international professional tennis tournaments with attractive prize money. Through partnerships and collaborations with venues around the globe, Universal Tennis delivers international tournaments worldwide. The plan is to hold 450 tournaments globally over the next three years.
UTR stands for Universal Tennis Rating System and is an international ranking system for every tennis player worldwide. It is widely used in the USA and is popular with college coaches there.
Universal Tennis's mission is to expand the sport of tennis through innovative events, create a global tennis community, and simultaneously serve as a global digital marketplace for players, facilitating level-based play. This goal is anchored in the UTR Rating, the world's most accurate tennis rating system. Universal Tennis provides the tools and solutions to make the UTR rating appealing to players and to build a global tennis community. Any player worldwide can register and create a player profile at universaltennis.com.
Generally, tournaments are played with either 20 or 32 players. The UTR Pro Tennis Tour tournament in Mülheim will feature a 20-player draw. Half of the players are ranked between 600 and 1500 in the world tennis rankings. The field is international. Admission of participants is determined by UTR and is based on the UTR ranking.
Generally, the tournament is played with either 20 or 32 players. The basic idea and objective is to provide participants with extensive tournament match experience. A 20-player field with a total of 55 matches proceeds as follows: The field consists of 20 players (16 direct entrants and 4 wild cards). Play is in 4 groups of 5 players each (round-robin system). The round-robin group stages take place from Monday to Friday: 4 matches are played daily on each of 2 courts. Within these 5 days, each player has one day off. In the playoff round, the top players from each group compete against each other. The top players from each group then play in a semifinal (Saturday) and final (Sunday) to determine the overall winner. Detailed information on the UTR tournament format can be found in the Tournament Format document.
In Mülheim, the tournament will feature a 20-player field. The total prize money per competition is $20,000. The guaranteed prize money distribution is as follows:
The participant fields for men and women in Mülheim an der Ruhr at the PMTR Tennis Academy can be found at www.pmtr.de/utr-turnier/
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