Tennis ecosystem in place to produce future stars
Bank of China Hong Kong Tennis Open 2025 was the showcase of the Hong Kong, China Tennis Association’s inaugural Hong Kong Tennis Season (HKTS). Combined with two professional women’s tournaments earlier this year, HKTS drew over 200,000 spectators to the Victoria Park Tennis Centre Court in the past 12 months.
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2024 also saw the International Tennis Federation host its annual conference and AGM here with over 300 delegates from 109 countries and territories participating in the week-long event. Already, Hong Kong, China Tennis Association (HKCTA) events have generated hundreds of jobs and contributed millions of dollars to Hong Kong’s burgeoning events economy.
In the space of only a year, Hong Kong is now the most visible mega event organiser in the Greater Bay Area, and like the city’s top tennis stars, HKCTA is setting even higher goals.
While HKTS provides an important boost for the city’s mega events economy, its impact on developing tennis for elite athletes is less visible, but no less vital. It delivers irreplaceable opportunities for local athletes to challenge the world’s best on home soil.
The inaugural HKTS featured 31 players from China, over a third of them from HKCTA ranks. Most prominent amongst these is full-time touring professional Coleman Wong Chak-lam.
After making his home ATP debut at Bank of China Hong Kong Tennis Open (BOCHKTO) 2024, Wong went on to fly the city’s tennis flag worldwide, becoming the first player from Hong Kong to qualify for an ATP Masters 1000 event at the Miami Open and reaching the last sixteen of the ATP Hangzhou Open, as well as two finals and four semifinals on the ATP Challenger Tour. He reached a career-high ATP single’s ranking of No. 128 in the world last September, the highest position ever reached by a Hong Kong player.
Wong is one of the signature products of the HKCTA’s elite development programme, having first tried tennis at the very same venue where he took to Centre Court this month alongside some of the world’s best players.
