By Richard Pagliaro | @Tennis_Now | Wednesday, April 3, 2024
America will be the world’s top tennis nation by 2035—if the USTA achieves an ambitious aim.
The USTA today announced a bold mission: to increase the country’s tennis-playing population to 35 million total players, or 10% of the U.S. population by 2035.
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That may sound like a stretch given the fact pickleball player growth is surpassing tennis player growth in many areas of the nation.
Then there’s the fact Americans are also leading more sedentary lives since the pandemic.
One in eight people in the world are living with obesity, according to The World Health Organization, which ranks the United States 10th in the world for obesity among men, with a male adult obesity rate of 41.6% in 2022.
The U.S. adult obesity rate “increased from 21.2% in 1990 to 43.8% in 2022 for women… placing the country 36th in the world for highest…
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