Iran joins ATT, to host first tournament tomorrow

Iran has become the latest country to join the Asian Tennis Tour (ATT) and are set to host their first event on the newly-launched platform, from tomorrow.
There will be back-to-back events tournaments in the Iran leg of the ATT.
Countries such as India and Thailand have already hosted many events and in such short time and close to 500 players, 491 to be precise, both men and women, have registered themselves with the Tour which is gradually making strides in realising the aim of benefiting the Asian players.
Out of 491 players from 22 countries registered with ATT, 144 are women. India (125 men and 86 women) and Thailand (40 men and 46 women) have highest number of players registered.

Interestingly, Iran has the maximum number of men's players registered.
"ATT is encouraged with the response from players in Iran and had a voluminous acceptance list of 79 players from Iran, Iraq, India, and Afghanistan for the events. ATF compliments the efforts and initiative of the local organizers and Iran Tennis Federation for hosting the development events.

"The ATF - ATT have conducted seven tournaments starting from mid April and is gradually making strides with 36 more tournaments lined up from September to December," a press release stated.
The players have come forward in voicing their support for the initiative launched by the Asian Tennis Federation President Anil Khanna, who is also ITF Vice President.

The current champion of three events held in Hua Hin, Thailand Pruchya Isarow said,"I would like to thank all the sponsors and big thank you to ATT for great tournament. Hopefully this tournament will be stairway to develop for my future and all next generation for Asian tennis players and I hope to be back this great tournament again next time.