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The USTA Southern California headquarters will move to the Carol Kimmelman Athletic and Academic Campus to be built on 90 acres in Carson, Calif. [37] Carol Kimmelman was a former USC walk-on who was on the Trojans’ 1983 national championship team. [38]
The center hosts United States Tennis Association (USTA) and International Tennis Federation (ITF) Junior World Tour events, and serves as the training center for the University of Maryland's women's tennis team. [2] The center has 17 outdoor courts and 15 indoor courts, including hardcourts, Har-Tru courts, and red clay courts. [3] [2]
The USTA posts summarized rankings multiple times a year, but uses a weekly standings list to determine entry into tournaments. They also provide point rewards for certain international tournaments, such as the Junior Grand Slams. Top ranked USTA juniors often go on to professional play, or top ranked Division I college programs.
Team tennis is a tennis tournament which consist of matches between different groups of players each competing to win the tournament for their team. The format is usually an altered version of the professionally played World TeamTennis format; consisting of both Men's and Women's matches with Singles, Doubles and Mixed Doubles.
The United States Tennis Association (USTA) is the national governing body for tennis in the United States.A not-for-profit organization with more than 700,000 members, it invests 100% of its proceeds to promote and develop the growth of tennis, from the grass-roots to the professional levels.
The La Jolla Tennis Championships [1] is a combined USTA affiliated hard court tennis competition featuring subsidiary tournaments, the longest and most famous of which is the open La Jolla Summer Tournament. It was founded in 1917 as the La Jolla Championships by Archibald Talboy. [2]
It originally controlled all of the tennis clubs west of the Alleghenies Mountains, and had great influence over the USTA at national meetings. When the USTA Midwest proposed a national clay court championship in 1910, the USTA agreed without dissent. In the 1920s, tennis became very popular in America and they started to train junior players.
The Southern Championships [1] also known as the Southern States Championships or Southern Sectional Championships was a men's and women's grass court then later clay tournament staged annually at various locations from 1885 until 1978. [2] The tournament is still being held today as the USTA Southern Championships. [3]