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As well as being available for individual users, World Tennis Academy membership plans are offered to National Associations, and to date 141 nations have signed up, adopting the platform as a centralised learning tool for hosting their own national coach certification courses, education workshops and webinars. Our data shows that 52% of users are players, 34% are coaches, 5% are parents, and the remainder are in other roles. The World Tennis Academy has continued to evolve to reflect this audience – this year, in addition to coaching content, new content and courses have been added for officiating, safeguarding, player care and World Tennis Tour tournament organisers. Coaching courses More than 310 educational programmes have been delivered by World Tennis's member National Associations so far in 2026, with these following a blended learning format mixing in-person and online sessions via the World Tennis Academy, covering practical learning, workshops, conferences and courses. World Tennis also supports in-person coaching courses organised by National Associations. At regional level, funding for coaching courses is provided by Olympic Solidarity, an Olympics-funded commission that provides support for development programmes. Thirty-eight courses in 34 member nations are taking place this year, of which 21 are Olympic Solidarity-funded. To date in 2026, 271 coaches have benefited from this training. In collaboration with our affiliated Regional Associations, World Tennis holds Regional Coaches Conferences every two years in Asia, South America, Central America/ Caribbean and Africa, and annually in Europe. Featuring a roster of international speakers, they focus on coach education for the top tennis coaches in their region and cover a variety of topics from high-level player development to strategies for increasing tennis participation. In 2026 seven Regional Conferences are taking place in Egypt, Hong Kong, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Panama, Peru and Turkey from September to November. Every two years we hold our flagship coach education event, the World Tennis Coaches Conference, which brings the global coaching community and a range of experts together to share knowledge. The 2025 edition in Vilnius, Lithuania was attended by 479 delegates from 92 nations. Recognising quality coaching World Tennis has a formal recognition programme for the coach education systems of National Associations which fosters best practice through tiered international standards. Eighty- seven nations have so far been recognised with Gold, Silver, Bronze or White level recognition. 41 l We Are World Tennis 2026 Development

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