“Tennis like never before”: Everything you want to know about UTS – updated ahead of UTS Frankfurt

The UTS Tour is excited to conclude 2024 with two more events, before an exciting 2025 season. Find out more about the revolutionary tennis event that started in 2020 at the Mouratoglou Tennis Academy.

15 October 2024

Gaël Monfils, UTS New York 2024 – © UTS

Chris Oddo

What is UTS?

UTS is a new tennis format launched in 2020. It seeks to capture the imagination of fans by tweaking the traditional tennis format, and supercharging it to make for a more exciting, memorable fan experience.

The format doesn’t seek to compete with the ATP and WTA Tours, but rather to offer something different to tennis fans. It has an emphasis on being fast-paced and more interactive, drawing in those who want to know their favourite players on a more intimate level and find and interact with younger fans which may have not discovered the joy of tennis.

When is the next UTS event?

The next UTS event will be from October 18th to October 20th in Frankfurt.

Headlined by Ugo “The Commander” Humbert and the retiring Dominic “Dominator” Thiem, a total of eight players will be competing across the three-day event:

Ben “The Mountain” Shelton
Lorenzo “The Illusionist” Musetti
Dominic “Dominator” Thiem
Gaël “La Monf” Monfils
Thanasi “Kokki” Kokkinakis
Jan-Lennard “The Thunder” Struff
Ugo “The Commander” Humbert
Denis “Shapo” Shapovalov

Tickets, order of play, and groups for UTS Frankfurt 2024 can all be viewed on the UTS website.

What is the Schedule for 2024?

2024 UTS Schedule

February 9-11 / Oslo (completed)

August 22-23 / New York (completed)
October 18-20 / Frankfurt
December 6-8 / Grand Final / London

What is the schedule for 2025?

2025 UTS Schedule

February 14-16 / Guadalajara
April 4-5 / (Bastide Médical) Nîmes

Patrick Mouratoglou has also said that he would like to expand UTS and run one event per month at some point in the future.

What are the rules of UTS?

The basics have been in place since the beginning. Four quarters with a running clock are played and the first player to win three quarters wins the match. In 2021, the length of an official quarter was changed from ten to eight minutes, in order to make the competition more like a sprint than a marathon. During the quarters there are no games, just a running score as players alternate serving two points apiece. The player with the most points when the clock runs out at the end of the quarter wins the quarter.

If the players each win two quarters, sudden death comes next. The first player to win two consecutive points is the sudden death winner, so every point beyond the first point is a match point.

Who are the UTS champions?

The UTS has crowned eight champions in seven competitions, one including men’s and women’s competition.

UTS1: | July 12, 2020 | Mouratoglou Academy, Biot, France | Champion: Matteo “The Hammer” Berrettini
UTS2: | August, 2, 2020 | Mouratoglou Academy, Biot, France | Champions: Alexander “The Lion” Zverev and Anastasia “The Thunder” Pavlyuchenkova
UTS3: | October 18, 2020 | Antwerp, Belgium | Champion: Alex “The Demon” De Minaur
UTS4: | May 25, 2021 | Mouratoglou Academy, Biot, France | Champion: Corentin “The Tornado” Moutet
UTS Los Angeles: | July 23, 2023 | Los Angeles, USA | Champion: Wu “The Great Wall” Yibing
UTS Frankfurt: | September 17, 2023 | Frankfurt, Germany | Champion: Andrey “Rublo” Rublev
UTS Grand Final 2023: | December 17, 2023 | London, UK | Champion: Jack “The Power” Draper
UTS Oslo: | February 11, 2024 | Oslo, Norway | Champion: Andrey “Rublo” Rublev
UTS New York: | August 23, 2024 | New York, United States | Champion: Gaël “La Monf” Monfils

Where can I watch videos of UTS highlights?

Tennis Majors, a UTS media partner from the beginning, provides coverage and highlights of all UTS matches, including live blogs, exclusive interviews, and b-roll videos. You can see all of our content at Tennis Majors.com. You can also watch highlights and read more about the competition at the UTS Tour’s YouTube page.

What’s up with the nicknames of the players at UTS?

The nicknames are part of the UTS allure, and each player has an active role in choosing their own nickname, ideally one that emphasises their personality and embraces the UTS spirit of self-expression and high energy. Here is a list of all the players that have competed at UTS, and their UTS nicknames.