16 • ITF Global Tennis Report 2019
The global landscape
for access to tennis
con nued
TOTAL NUMBER OF TENNIS COURTS
The number of tennis courts in existence around
the world, both indoor and outdoor.
• There are 489,135 tennis courts globally, with
more than 95% of tennis courts found
in 37 na ons.
See Fig 9
See Appendix A page 453 for the cumula ve total
distribu ons for total tennis courts.
• Over 90% of tennis courts globally are in 3
regions: Europe, Asia and North America.
See Fig 10
RATIO OF WORLD'S POPULATION TO
TOTAL TENNIS COURTS
Using each na on's tennis court numbers, we
calculated the total number of tennis courts rela ve
to a na on's popula on (using United Na ons
popula on data from 2017). Results are shown
per 1,000 popula on.
• There are 14,807 people or 178 players for
every tennis court in the world.
• The Oceania region has the highest propor on of
tennis courts rela ve to its popula on (0.6 courts
per 1,000 people or 1,692 people per court).
• Asia and South America have very similar
popula on to tennis court ra os - approximately
33,000 people per court.
See Fig 11 and 12
