{"id":344911,"date":"2025-12-13T07:43:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-13T07:43:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/344911\/"},"modified":"2025-12-13T07:43:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T07:43:14","slug":"craig-tiley-linked-to-usta-ceo-report-australian-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/344911\/","title":{"rendered":"Craig Tiley linked to USTA CEO, report, Australian Open"},"content":{"rendered":"

Long-time Australian Open<\/a> boss Craig Tiley<\/a> is nearing a deal to take on the most senior leadership position in US tennis, according to a report by sports business platform Sportico, which was published on Saturday.<\/p>\n

Tiley, who also serves as the chief executive of Tennis Australia<\/a> (TA), is one of the nation’s highest-profile sporting administrators and commands substantial influence among world tennis decision-makers.<\/p>\n

The Sportico report confirms that, after a two-decade tenure overseeing the Australian Open, Tiley is in advanced talks to lead US tennis.<\/p>\n

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Australian Open tournament director Craig Tiley.\u00a0Getty<\/p>\n

He is slated to become the new CEO of the United States Tennis Association (USTA) and the US Open<\/a>, concluding a months-long selection process.<\/p>\n

The Sportico report noted that the individuals who confirmed Tiley as the USTA’s choice were granted anonymity, as the specifics of the process remain private.<\/p>\n

The USTA has been under interim leadership since former CEO Lew Sherr departed at the end of June.<\/p>\n

The governing body is currently being run by two co-CEOs: board chairman Brian Vahaly and COO Andrea Hirsch.<\/p>\n

Watch all the Australian Open action live on Nine, 9Now and Stan Sport from Sunday, January 18.<\/p>\n

South African-born Tiley first joined TA as director of tennis in 2005 before securing the role to run the Australian Open for the 2006 event.<\/p>\n

He expanded his influence significantly when he became the TA chief executive in 2013.<\/p>\n

Under Tiley’s leadership, TA’s financial strength is evident: the national governing body recorded about $590.5 million in revenue for the 2024 financial year, according to its most recent annual report.<\/p>\n

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Novak Djokovic ans Tennis Australia CEO Craig Tiley.\u00a0AP<\/p>\n

The USTA mirrors TA’s operational structure in that both organisations derive a massive portion of their annual revenue from running one of the sport’s four grand slams.<\/p>\n

The USTA owns and operates the US Open in New York City.<\/p>\n

“While we do not have any news to share at this time, we are confident that our next CEO will continue to build on the USTA’s long-standing commitment to growing the game of tennis in communities across the United States and elevating the US Open as the biggest stage for our sport,” the USTA said in a statement.<\/p>\n

In November, the USTA named Eric Butorac as the next US Open tournament director.<\/p>\n

Should Tiley confirm his departure from TA, it is unclear if he would still oversee the imminent Australian Open, which begins on January 18.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Long-time Australian Open boss Craig Tiley is nearing a deal to take on the most senior leadership position…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":344912,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":["post-344911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=344911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344911\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/344912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}