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This puts us on track to achieve the '30 by 30' goal we set in 2021, to add 30 million new players and have 120 million people playing tennis by 2030. It is an ambi ous target but the ITF and its member na ons are working hard to achieve it. The ITF Global Tennis Report 2024 is the most comprehensive report on the worldwide tennis-playing scene ever published. A record 199 na ons completed the Na onal Associa on Survey that informed the par cipa on findings, doing so via a dedicated online pla orm, and performance data for the report was drawn from the ITF's match and tournament database. The full report can be read on the ITF Academy pla orm. ITF Global Tennis Report We published the third edi on of the ITF Global Tennis Report in 2024 with the extremely posi ve news that 106 million people now play tennis around the world, a 25.6% increase since 2019. 99% OF PLAYERS ARE FROM Up from 31 in 2019 33 NATIONS 106m TENNIS PLAYERS WORLDWIDE 40.3% ARE FEMALE Up 25.6% on 2019 1.38% OF THE GLOBAL POPULATION PLAYS TENNIS Compared to 1.13% in 2019 175,320 TENNIS COACHES 24.3% ARE FEMALE ITF GLOBAL TENNIS REPORT 2024 130,742 CLUBS IdENTIFIEd 698,034 COURTS IdENTIFIEd OF WHOM 37