CLEVELAND \u2014\u00a0Tennis in the Land is back in Cleveland for the 5th year. Tournament director, Kyle Ross, said some of the best players in the world will be here competing.<\/p>\n
What You Need To Know<\/p>\n
Tennis in the Land is a WTA 250 tournament\u00a0
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The venue in Cleveland is fully temporary and is turned from a parking lot to a tennis venue\u00a0
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There are about 100 people who work to make the venue what it is, in just under two weeks\u00a0<\/p>\n
Ross said around 16,000 fans will attend the tournament over the week long span. He explained how this venue is different than other tournament sites because it\u2019s urban and fully temporary.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt has like a unique flavor, and kind of character that a lot of events don\u2019t,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Ross explained the work that goes into setting up the venue in just under two weeks.<\/p>\n
\u201cOperationally it\u2019s hard. We have a lot to build, we build a 2,000 seat stadium, we paint, all these courts are parking lots throughout most of the year and then we kind of transform them into a world class tennis venue,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Ross said there\u2019s about 100 people working to put the site together, which includes Marc McLaughlin. McLaughlin works on the electronic lane calling for the tournament.<\/p>\n
\u201cReplacing all the umpires. We\u2019re calling foot faults, calling service faults,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
There are three courts and 12 cameras on each. Since the venue is fully temporary, McLaughlin explained that it\u2019s not built for something like this, so it\u2019s a challenge.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have the cables that are being run at the moment, once the venue has got more of the seating and stuff in place, we\u2019ll put the cameras up on temporary structures and yeah, we\u2019ll just make it work,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Once the tournament is over, it will go back to being a parking lot, but the memories made at the tournament will last a lifetime.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s a Cleveland event,. That\u2019s the heart of who we are, but part of that is being able to showcase it to others as well,\u201d Ross said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CLEVELAND \u2014\u00a0Tennis in the Land is back in Cleveland for the 5th year. Tournament director, Kyle Ross, said…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":74198,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[1014,3550,49,48,4850,45806,45808,44,6376,45809,45807,82,593,39,1016],"class_list":["post-74197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-app-sports","tag-app-top-stories","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-cleveland","tag-ctv","tag-katie-priefer","tag-news","tag-ohio","tag-ohio-cleveland-top-stories","tag-ohio-what-you-need-to-know","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-top-stories","tag-vod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74197","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=74197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74197\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}