Tennis Canada
| Tennis Canada (TC) | |
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| Sport | Tennis |
| Jurisdiction | National |
| Founded | 1890 |
| Headquarters | Rexall Centre, Toronto and Uniprix Stadium, Montreal[1] |
| Chairman | John LeBoutillier |
| Chief Exec | Kelly D. Murumets |
| Sponsor | Sport Canada, International Tennis Federation |
| Official website | |
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tenniscanada | |
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Tennis Canada is the national governing body of tennis within Canada. It works together with the provincial associations to organize tournaments and rules. They also oversee the Canada Davis Cup team and the Canada Fed Cup team. Tennis Canada was formed in 1890 and is a full member of the International Tennis Federation. Tennis Canada operates under the auspices of Sport Canada, and is a member of the Canadian Olympic Association. The organizational membership is made up of 10 provincial associations. Tennis Canada’s event management team is directly responsible for all national and international competitions in Canada, including junior, senior and wheelchair championships.
Tennis Canada organizes the Rogers Cup tournaments, an ATP World Tour Masters 1000 event and a WTA Premier competition.[2]
Rogers Rankings
Tennis Canada, in partnership with the Provincial Tennis Associations, launched Rogers Rankings on January 1, 2009. This new and enhanced ranking system is based on the proven Chess Elo ranking system and has been developed and used with exceptional accuracy by the Quebec Tennis Federation for over twenty-five years. The Rogers Rankings allows all competitors to compare themselves to the nation’s top players. Similar systems have also been in use in Spain and France. The Rogers Rankings system awards points to players based on quality of wins (i.e. head-to-head results) versus rounds won in a tournament. The system generates accurate rankings due to its ability to evaluate the calibre of competing players. Based on this premise, the stronger player is expected to win while the weaker player is expected to lose. Players are ranked according to points accumulated in national, provincial and international tournaments sanctioned by the Tennis Canada ranking committee. Player points are used to compute a national and provincial ranking. To ensure accuracy, Tennis Canada and the PTAs began testing the system internally on January 1, 2008.
The Rogers Rankings are designed and developed by Computan Ltd. a tennis savvy software development company that has worked with provincial tennis associations for a number of years. Computan specializes in creating customized web-based software/applications for many small-medium businesses and recently launched a venture capital division helping firms develop sound web-based businesses.
References
- ↑ "Make Contact". Retrieved February 15, 2011.
- ↑ "Tennis Canada Overview". Retrieved February 15, 2011.
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