‘Standards’ Recognition Award Criteria

Tournaments must meet all 3 criteria to be considered:

Tournament Feedback Survey – On the Wednesday of the tournament week, a survey is sent to the IPIN registered email address of players who participated in the tournament. Players are asked to rate key elements of the tournament and their overall experience. These results are used as a measure of player satisfaction with the tournament delivery.

• Received five or more responses in the previous edition of the event or swing (see below).
• Scored a specific metric (see ‘criteria’ below) on the ‘overall satisfaction’ question.
• No metric within the survey questions can score less than 3 (‘average’). For the ITF World Tennis Tour this includes the welcome, ball quality, practice, hotel, and food.
• Combined WTT events are aggregated and counted as a single event with respect to the TRP.
• Where a venue is hosting ‘multi-week’ tournaments (hosted at the same venue for two or more weeks consecutively) the scores will be aggregated further across the multiple weeks and counted as one event within the TRP.

Tournament Supervisor Report – ITF Supervisors are required to submit a report following each tournament. Supervisors are required to rate the equivalent metrics to the Tournament Feedback Survey. No metric can score less than 3 (‘average’). This report must be received for the tournament to be considered.

National Association / Tournament Administration – National Associations must ensure a timely submission of the tournament application, tournament fact sheet and any required additional documentation for the tournament to be considered.

Criteria

The award is based upon the data from the most recent tournament (or swing), and if the standards have fallen based upon the above-mentioned criteria, then the award is removed. Tournament Recognition awards will be considered twice a year, in advance of the next edition of the tournament.  January to June tournaments will be informed in the final quarter of the previous year (December 2023 for launch of programme). July to December tournaments will be informed by March the same year.

It is acknowledged that the higher the grade the better the feedback metrics. On this basis the Tours will split the categories and have different ‘overall satisfaction’ metric criteria. The breakdown and metric (measured on a 1-5 scale) is as follows:

Whilst the initial intention is to recognise 5-10% of tournaments, as more tournaments meet the criteria it is anticipated the number of tournaments achieving the recognition award will increase year on year. A nation can have more than one tournament receiving an Award in any period.

W50-W100

• W75 Burnie (AUS) - January 2024
• W75 Altenkirchen (GER) - February 2024
• W100 Zaragoza (ESP) - April 2024
• W75 Chiasso (SUI) - April 2024
• W75 Zephyrhills, FL (USA) - April 2024 (moved to W75 from W35)
• W50 Otocec (SVN) - May 2024
• W100 Granby (CAN) - July 2024
• W100 Vitoria-Gasteiz (ESP) - July 2024
• W75 Olomouc (CZE) - July 2024
• W50 Porto (POR) - July 2024
• W75 Hechingen (GER) - July 2024
• W75 Vienna (AUT) - August 2024

W15 & W35

• W35 Bath (GBR) - February 2024
• W35 Naples, FL (USA) - February 2024
• W15 Gurugram (IND) - February 2024
• W15 Heraklion (GRE) - March 2024
• W35 Bujumbura (BDI) - April 2024
• W35 Osijek (CRO) - April 2024
• W35 Bethany Beach, DE (USA) - May 2024
• W15 Huntsville, AL (USA) - May 2024
• W15 Casablanca (MAR) - July 2024
• W15 Buzau (ROU) - September 2024

W50-W100

• W75 Croissy-Beaubourg (FRA) - March 2025
• W50 Calvi (FRA) - April 2025
• W75 Koper (SLO) - April 2025
• W100 Zaragoza (ESP) - April 2025
• W100 Bonita Springs, FL (USA) - April 2025

W15 & W35

• W15 Sabadell (ESP) - March 2025
• W15 Karaganda (KAZ) - March 2025
• W35 Jackson, MS (USA) - April 2025
• W35 Klagenfurt (AUT) - May 2025
• W15 Bol (CRO) - May 2025
• W35 Klosters (SUI) - June 2025
• W35/W15 Hillcrest - June 2025
• W35 Tauste (ESP) - June 2025

A tournament venue must have hosted consecutively for 25 years or more, with the exception that a tournament did not have to host in either 2020 or 2021. Note that for the ITF World Tennis Tour, men’s and women’s tournaments have been merged i.e. a venue could have hosted either a men’s or women’s tournaments at any stage throughout the 25 years.

Contact the relevant department if you have any queries or feel that your tournament meets our criteria.

Recognised Tournament Venues

• Tennis Club de Bagneres-de-Biggore, Bagneres-de-Biggore, France
• Tennis Club de Bourg-en-Bresse, Bourg-en-Bresse, France
• Tennis Club Herastrau, Bucharest, Romania
• Club de Tenis Denia, Denia, Spain
• Club de Tenis Gandia, Gandia, Spain
• Scotstoun Leisure Centre, Glasgow, Great Britain
• Real Club de Tenis Oviedo, Oviedo, Spain
• Tennis Club de Plaisir, Plaisir, France
• Comité Départemental Tennis de la Vienne, Poitiers, France
• Stade Poitevin Tennis Club, Poitiers, France
• Akademicki Zwiazek Sportowy, Poznan, Poland