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The 2024 World Tennis League was a non-ATP/WTA-affiliated exhibition mixed-gender team tennis tournament. It was the third edition of the World Tennis League . The event was held on hard court at the Etihad Arena in Abu Dhabi , United Arab Emirates from 19 until 22 December 2024.
The SANFL is the highest level league using this system today, it has been used in the past by the VFL and several rugby league competitions, most notably the short-lived Super League of Australia and the present-day Super League in the UK and France. Many lower-level leagues in both Australian rules and rugby league still use the system.
Matches were best-of-3 sets. A tiebreak was played in all sets reaching 6–6, including the last set of a match. In a change from previous Olympics editions, the men’s final was played over three rather than five sets, for compensation to players who are competing in the later stages in all three categories: singles, doubles and mixed. [6]
Each team played a 12-match regular-season schedule. The matches consisted of five sets, with one set each of men's and women's singles, men's and women's doubles, and mixed doubles. The first team to reach five games won each set. A nine-point tiebreaker was played if a set reaches four games all.
The series between the teams in this stage will feature two singles matches and one doubles match, instead of the best-of-5 series, with the matches changing from best of 5 sets to best of 3. As the World Group will now take place as one single competition, this event has been named as the Davis Cup Finals.
Every so often, a debate bubbles up around whether it makes sense for men to keep playing best-of-five-set matches at Wimbledon and other Grand Slam tournaments. Consider Novak Djokovic a staunch ...
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The company Tennis Point sponsors the league and has acquired the naming rights in 2009, which resulted in the official title of the competition being Tennis-Point-Bundesliga. The 2019 season was the 48th season of the competition. 53 clubs have been part of the league since its inception.