Well, today the USTA sends out an e-mail officially confirming that is the case. The e-mail has the subject "Your New Destination for Registering for 2021 USTA Tournaments" and provides the same link I did to the new Play Tennis site, with a suggestion to bookmark it, which is a good thing as it wasn't easy to navigate to.
Note, you may also see the new site referred to as "Serve Tennis", which it was in a newsletter from my section also received today.
I did visit the site again and noticed some changes have been made already, notably rather than having you enter just a location in the search box, you can now specify the category (Junior, Adult, Wheelchair) and date range for the initial search. Previously, category and date were filters you applied after searching on location. It is nice to see they are trying to continue to improve it as it launches, so hopefully stay tuned for more.
I also see that there are now 773 tournaments listed, up from 420 a little over a week ago, and 105 are Adult tournaments, up from 35 previously.
The sorting by date still doesn't work, but hopefully that will be fixed soon. And the distance filter is interesting in that it offers a fine grained control from 10 to 50 miles, but above that is only unlimited. I think this should change to probably offer 10, 50, 100, 500, and unlimited.
What do you think? Will you be looking for tournaments to play in as 2021 starts?
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