Earlier this year, I wrote about the USTA's press release on tennis growth and in that post I introduced a new chart showing participation based on the number of players who receive year-end ratings. Now that ratings are out, I can add 2023 to the mix.
Here is the chart showing the number of players with year-end ratings since 2012.
We see the metric has gone up slightly from 2022 (231K to 238K), it is still lower than all the other years from 2012 to 2021.
There are a number of possible reasons the number has gone up including:
- We are still in the post-COVID recovery period where players continue to come back to league play
- The COVID tennis boom we heard about from the TIA and USTA is finally resulting in some of those new players joining league play
- Some sections with secondary leagues that didn't count for ratings in the past are now counting these leagues, so players that play in them are now getting year-end ratings.
The bulk of the increase from 2022 is with C rated players which are up around 6K on their own.
2024 will be interesting to see where we end up!
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