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ITF World Tennis Tour Juniors adopts new grading structure for 2023

Ross McLean

06 Dec 2022

As excitement builds ahead of the 2023 season, new grade names for ITF World Tennis Tour junior events will come into effect as a simpler and more numerically consistent approach is adopted.

The new naming structure, which is to be launched from 1 January 2023, will see the tournament’s grade reflect the number of ranking points awarded to the singles winner of that particular event.  

Currently, a Grade 1 event on the ITF World Tennis Tour Juniors offers 300 rankings points to the singles winner, so from 1 January these events will simply be known as J300 tournaments.

Please see below a list of graded junior events and how they will be referred to in 2023.

Existing Grade Name

Grade Name from 1 January 2023

Junior Grand Slams

Junior Grand Slams

Grade A

J500

Grade 1 (J1/B1)

J300

Grade 2 (J2/B2)

J200

Grade 3 (J3/B3)

J100

Grade 4 (J4)

J60

Grade 5 (J5)

J30

The ITF World Tennis Tour is the main artery to the ATP and WTA Tour and in 2022 the ITF World Tennis Tour Juniors has provided close to 800 tournament opportunities for aspiring players and the stars of tomorrow.