NEWPORT, R.I. — The Worldwide Tennis Corridor of Fame will transfer its enshrinement ceremony to August beginning subsequent yr to raised seize the eye of the tennis world on the eve of the US Open.
The Newport facility additionally introduced it would host a brand new mixed males’s and girls’s 125-level match in 2025, with equal prize cash, to exchange the lads’s 250-level occasion that’s being dropped from the ATP schedule after this week.
The mixed Corridor of Fame Open — scheduled for July 6-13 in 2025 — would be the solely grass-court girls’s match outdoors of Europe. It is the primary time the Corridor will host a girls’s professional match because the 1990 Virginia Slims of Newport.
“We … are thrilled to supply followers with double the tennis beginning subsequent summer time,” match director Brewer Rowe stated.
The Corridor for many years has hosted a males’s match the week after Wimbledon, with the Corridor of Fame inductions held on Saturday together with the semifinals. Leander Paes, Vijay Amritraj and Richard Evans can be inducted into the Corridor this week together with the ultimate version of the 250 match.
