The ITN is an international tennis number that represents a player’s general level of play. In time it is hoped that every tennis player worldwide will have an ITN. To facilitate the rating of players the ITF have developed the ITN on court assessment that is made up of 5 sections:

• Groundstroke depth assessment
• Groundstroke accuracy assessment
• Volley Depth assessment
• Serving accuracy assessment
• Mobility assessment

The ITF International Tennis Number (ITN) was created by the ITF as a tool to help their member nations to increase tennis participation in their countries.

The ITN On Court Assessment provides a mechanism to track the progress of young champions around the world as they grow and develop. (E.g. It would be fascinating to have the Assessment scores of Andre Agassi and Lleyton Hewitt at different ages as they developed. Imagine all the aspiring young champions measuring their own progress against our current champions.

The ITF believe that the ITN will over the next few years change the face of tennis dramatically particularly for the recreational players. We have a chance through the ITN not only to attract new people to this great game of tennis but also to retain players…to motivate these new players and existing players wherever they might be to play more tennis. We expect that in a very short time most tennis players in the world will hold an ITN and the ITN will be recognised as the common rating language of the tennis world.

• An on-court assessment based on a set number of tasks.
• A tool to measure control, accuracy and power in a set of tasks.
• A tool to enable players to benchmark themselves against themselves and others around the world.
• A tool to enable the comparison of players around the world.
• An assessment tool to differentiate between players of similar ability.
• A tool to encourage participation in tennis at all age groups and standards.
• A reward and recognition tool.
• A tool to enable players to track their own development and improvement.
• A tool to motivate players to improve.

• A mechanism to attract non competition and new players into the ITN system.
• An objective method for participants to measure their own improvement.
• Enable players to make comparisons to other players locally, nationally and globally.
• A tangible path for participants to strive for and proceed along.
• A global database where players can see how they rate compared to others in their particular category around the world.
• A global bench mark that can be filtered and sorted by any number of ways.

• Any person wishing to receive an understanding of their current level of play.
• Any person wishing to track their own development and improvement.
• Any person wishing to compare themselves with other players on a local, national and global scale.
• Any person wishing to get a clearer understanding of their tennis strengths and weaknesses