{"id":217919,"date":"2025-10-16T18:26:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T18:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/217919\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T18:26:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T18:26:09","slug":"itf-to-change-name-to-world-tennis-in-bid-for-clearer-identity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/217919\/","title":{"rendered":"ITF to change name to World Tennis in bid for &#8216;clearer identity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON \u2014 The International Tennis Federation will change its name to \u201cWorld Tennis\u201d as of 2026.<\/p>\n<p>The switch was ratified Thursday by member national tennis associations voting at the governing body&#8217;s annual general meeting.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe change will provide a clearer identity that is more relevant to players, fans, partners and tennis stakeholders around the world, and brings the brand in line with a majority of sport\u2019s most prominent global governing bodies,\u201d the ITF said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>ITF president David Haggerty added: \u201cWorld Tennis better reflects who we are today; the global governing body and guardian of tennis, working hard with our members to deliver tennis for life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Founded as the International Lawn Tennis Federation in Paris in 1913, the organization became the International Tennis Federation in 1977.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONDON \u2014 The International Tennis Federation will change its name to \u201cWorld Tennis\u201d as of 2026. The switch&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":217920,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-217919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217919\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}