{"id":347904,"date":"2025-12-14T17:47:24","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T17:47:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/347904\/"},"modified":"2025-12-14T17:47:24","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T17:47:24","slug":"tennis-australias-craig-tiley-in-talks-to-take-over-as-usta-ceo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/347904\/","title":{"rendered":"Tennis Australia\u2019s Craig Tiley in talks to take over as USTA CEO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/OHBDJH4OMLLNEWKOBRKUO3W3MQ.jpg\"  width=\"800\" height=\"533\"\/>Longtime Australian Open boss Craig Tiley is \u201cin advanced talks to take on the most senior role in US tennis\u201d &#8212; CEO of the USTA.  Getty Images <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph sections-people-and-pop-culture \">Longtime Australian Open leader Craig Tiley is \u201cin advanced talks to take on the most senior role in US tennis\u201d as CEO of the USTA. Sportico first reported the deal. Tiley, currently the CEO of Tennis Australia, is \u201cone of the highest-profile sporting administrators in the country\u201d and \u201cone of the most influential decision-makers in world tennis.\u201d After \u201ctwo decades at the top of tennis in Australia &#8212; overseeing the extraordinary growth of the country\u2019s biggest annual sporting event, the Australian Open\u201d &#8212; the South African-born Tiley could be \u201cthe new boss\u201d of the USTA. The USTA \u201chas been run by two interim CEOs\u201d &#8212; Board Chair Brian Vahaly and COO &amp; CLO Andrea Hirsch &#8212; since former CEO <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2025\/05\/30\/lew-sherr-named-mets-president-of-business-operations\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2025\/05\/30\/lew-sherr-named-mets-president-of-business-operations\/\">Lew Sherr left to take over as the Mets\u2019 President of Business Operations<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/sport\/tennis\/craig-tiley-poised-to-become-the-new-boss-of-united-states-tennis-report-20251213-p5nnf0.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">SYDNEY MORNING HERALD, 12\/13<\/a>). <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2025\/07\/24\/usta-taps-elevate-talent-to-lead-ceo-search\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.sportsbusinessjournal.com\/Articles\/2025\/07\/24\/usta-taps-elevate-talent-to-lead-ceo-search\/\">Elevate Talent led the CEO search<\/a> for the USTA (SBJ).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Longtime Australian Open boss Craig Tiley is \u201cin advanced talks to take on the most senior role in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":347905,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,1871,85,747],"class_list":{"0":"post-347904","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-leadership","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347904","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=347904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347904\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/347905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}