LONDON — The Worldwide Tennis Federation will change its identify to “World Tennis” as of 2026.
The swap was ratified Thursday by member nationwide tennis associations voting on the governing physique’s annual common assembly.
“The change will present a clearer id that’s extra related to gamers, followers, companions and tennis stakeholders around the globe, and brings the model in keeping with a majority of sport’s most outstanding international governing our bodies,” the ITF stated in an announcement.
ITF president David Haggerty added: “World Tennis higher displays who we’re right now; the worldwide governing physique and guardian of tennis, working exhausting with our members to ship tennis for all times.”
Based because the Worldwide Garden Tennis Federation in Paris in 1913, the group grew to become the Worldwide Tennis Federation in 1977.
