With new stadium set up, Tennis in the Land tournament eyes permanent residence in downtown
The new Topnotch Stadium, soon host to the third Tennis in the Land come August, could, founder Kyle Moss said, lead to a permanent stadium in the next five years.That's what Kyle Moss, the tournament director of Tennis in the Land, believes might happen in the next five years or so. As, due to the increasing success of the week-long, globally-reaching competition in the past two years, Moss thinks it's high time to bring professional and collegiate tennis Downtown.
Turnout numbers for the pro women's tennis competition suggest the support might be there. In 2021, the five-day showcase brought 14,000 attendees to Jacobs Pavilion at Nautica. In 2022, with night matches and extended hours, that draw rose to 16,000. This year, with $200,000 in ticket sales made in just two days, Moss is"pushing 18,000" as this year's goal.
, situated south of Burke Lakefront Airport, named after a lawyer who helped pull mainstays like the Western Open to Cleveland. After it was abandoned in 1988, all downtown matches were booked at the Gund Arena, now the Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse. In Moss's mind, the opportunity to birth a long-lasting tennis hub in the city's center is ripe. He points to the Atlanta Open for example, which constructs a tennis village every year near Union Station, in Atlanta's urban core.
"It's all about energy and interest," Moss said."We don't want to be an event in the suburbs. We want to be a tournament in the heart of the city."
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