UK Pro League Tennis Targets Growth With PTI Digital

UK Pro League Tennis Targets Growth With PTI Digital Ahead of its second season, the UK’s elite tennis competition engages PTI’s industry-leading expertise to create a digitally-led roadmap for commercial growth.

UK Pro League Tennis has joined forces with PTI Digital in the competition’s second season to build a scalable digital-led strategy to support the league’s commercial goals and grow the domestic tournament’s brand.

PTI will work with tournament organisers River Media to help realise the potential of the UK Pro League Tennis’ digital capabilities, and support commercial growth with an integrated digital strategy.

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PTI’s remit will include digital advisory work to broaden the appeal of the event and grow the addressable audience, build digital and data layers to deliver commercial growth and revenue for the tournament, engage key audiences and bring the best of British players to tennis fans around the country.

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River Media Partners, the independent media rights agency set up in 2020 by Nick Chesworth, Dominic Hayes and Ben Nicholas, launched the UK Pro League Tennis in the summer of 2020 to bring a new and purely domestic tennis tournament to British fans.

With COVID-19 causing international tennis events to drop out of the calendar, the inaugural UK Pro League gave many of the top British players, including established names as well as young up-and-coming talent, the opportunity to play competitive matches in a safe and controlled environment.

British number 8 Liam Broady and 17-year-old rising star Emma Raducanu took the first men’s and women’s UK Pro titles respectively, with other well-known faces including Harriet Dart, James Ward, Jodie Burrage and Marcus Willis taking part in the 42 continuous days of elite tennis action.

With prize money of over half a million pounds, the League offers tennis fans a chance to get to know more of the players on the British circuit.

River Media’s Dominic Hayes said: “After a successful first season, a key objective is to scale the tournament while factoring in the continuing behind-closed-doors nature of sport. PTI are able to provide incredibly valuable guidance on our data and digital journey and truly scale in line with the tournament’s growth.”

PTI’s Chief Commercial Officer Ben Wells added: “This is an exciting opportunity to build on the success of the first UK Pro League Tennis tournament and bring the event to more fans around the country. The opportunity for us all is to imagine how the tournament can drive engagement across the country, year-round. We are looking forward to allying our digital-led commercial vision with River Media’s entrepreneurial approach to create something ground-breaking.”