Founded in 1881, The United States Tennis

Association is a not-for-profit, volunteer

based organization which serves as the National

Governing Body (NGB) for tennis in America.

The USTA has grown, and is now the second

largest NGB in the U.S. with close to 500,000

individual members and over 6,300

organizational members. Its mission is to

promote the development of tennis as a means of

healthful recreation, establish and maintain

rules of play, and foster national and

international amateur and professional

tournaments.

Although, the USTA's "crown jewel" is the U.S.

Open, which it owns and manages, the USTA is

committed to the development of the game at the

grassroots level through adult and junior

programs, initiatives and tournaments. The USTA

also selects the national tennis teams for

Davis Cup, Fed Cup and the Olympic Games. In

addition to its premier tennis events which

attract the world's top professional players,

the USTA creates thousands of amateur events

and a complete series of challenger and

satellite tournaments, the introductory stages

of U.S. Professional tennis.

While the USTA's base of operation is in White

Plains, New York, it maintains a presence in

Key Biscayne, Florida, home to USTA Player

Development and Sports Science programs, and in

Flushing, New York, at the USTA National Tennis

Center.

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