Australian Destanee Aiava (UTR Ranking 11.89) broke by way of on the 2025 Australian Open, incomes her first Grand Slam main-draw match win. Earlier than she shined within the Melbourne highlight, for years, Aiava, like 1000’s of ladies’s tennis gamers, honed her sport on the UTR Professional Tennis Tour (PTT).
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Created by UTR Sports activities, the PTT is the go-to tour for rising skilled tennis gamers, internet hosting a whole lot of $25K occasions and greater than 20,000 matches worldwide annually.
Aiava and gamers in every single place are drawn to the PTT’s distinctive format: three to 5 assured matches, higher prize cash, and extra incomes alternatives with the brand new PTT Tour Card. That assured matchplay and cash helps gamers turn into “match-tough” and additional fund their professional tennis careers, pushing them to succeed in the High 200 and past.
“The UTR Pro Tennis Tour events are really great to add to my schedule when match play is needed. But they also provide amazing prize money for all rounds of the event, which is crucial to be able to support my tennis,” Aiava, a four-time PTT champion, mentioned.
The brand new PTT Tour Card makes it simpler for gamers to get extra matchplay and earn more cash. Gamers who compete in a minimum of two tournaments earn $500 in free Energy Subscription analytics and equipment, whereas the primary gamers to compete in 4 tournaments will earn $750. By a yearlong factors race, high performers in every gender are set to make $10,000.
Spain’s Aran Teixido Garcia is at present eighth within the PTT Factors Race after successful her first PTT title final month. “It just makes the process of transitioning into professional tennis so much easier,” she mentioned of the PTT.
Along with serving to high professional girls’s tennis gamers similar to Aiava, PTT occasions present avenues for ladies faculty tennis gamers, together with Carolyn Ansari (UTR Ranking 10.52) and Gabriela Knutson (UTR Ranking 11.39), to begin to construct their professional tennis careers.
“I love playing UTR PTT events. I feel very match fit and match tough when it comes to playing PTTs. You can practice all day, but if you can’t replicate it over and over again in a pressurized setting, it won’t help you,” mentioned Ansari, who performed collegiate tennis at Auburn College. “You get unreal prize money for competing, so it helps a ton with traveling.”
Knutson constructed her profession, and her confidence, on the PTT. “The UTR PTTs helped me discover my tennis potential,” she mentioned. “The tournaments gave me the opportunity to play many matches, learn my level, and explore my game.”
Knutson was a two-time All-American at Syracuse College and gained her first PTT title in 2021 in Bulgaria. Now she’s nearing the High 200 of the WTA Rankings and seeking to set a brand new career-high rating this yr.
“Without [PTT tournaments], I would have never got the courage to go pro after university,” Knutson mentioned.
Ukraine’s Yuliia Starodubtseva is No. 109 within the WTA Rankings and performed in entrance of massive crowds on the 2025 Australian Open, falling within the first spherical to 2021 US Open finalist Leylah Fernandez. But years earlier, Starodubtseva additionally loved career-changing experiences on the PTT, successful her first professional tennis title on the PTT in 2023.
“UTR Pro Tennis Tour events are something that really helped me to get started on the pro tour,” she mentioned. “[The] events offer good prize money for the players and many great matches to play. It is a unique and extremely helpful organization for the tennis players.”
