In 2014/15 The Asia Pacific Tennis League (ATL) will be evolving to merge the South Australian and Western Australian ATL Conferences from previous years to make up a combined South West Conference.
The South West Conference will involve three men’s and three women’s teams from each state and will again be played as a six team round robin competition. The ATL format of four game sets and rules from previous years will be the same for the 2014/15 ATL season.
Clubs from both SA and WA will be competing for the inaugural South West Conference men’s and women’s titles and a share of $20,000 in prize money. The men’s and women’s champions will move through to stage two of the Asia Pacific Tennis League to be played at Melbourne Park in the second week of the Australian Open. At ATL stage two of the teams who qualified from the other Australian Conferences will compete against clubs from New Zealand, Korea, Japan and the Oceania-Pacific for $120,000 in prize money.
ATL South West Conference details will be confirmed shortly.
South Australia has a successful history in the ATL over the first three years of the League. In 2012/13 the Flagstaff Freighters took out the National Conference in Melbourne and backed up that performance by making a final in the 2013/14 conference. In 2013/14 the Trinity titans finished a serviceable 5th place amongst the eight competing teams from the Asia Pacific region.
For information on how clubs can nominate to be part of the 2014/15 ATL South West Conference please contact Ty Allen at [email protected]
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