Platform Tennis Magazine | What’s In PTM?

Welcome to the official website for Platform Tennis Magazine, the world’s only publication for the sport of platform tennis.

Each issue of Platform Tennis Magazine offers readers the opportunity to learn more about the sport and the people involved with it. The magazine is the “Official” Publication for the American Platform Tennis Association. All members who join the association receive a subscription to PTM. In addition, subscriptions are sold on an individual basis for $20 per year. To subscribe to PTM click here.

Each issue of Platform Tennis Magazine includes:

• Instructional Content

Each issue of Platform Tennis Magazine offers readers three full-color instructional feature articles contributed by the best instructors the sport has to offer. The three articles covered in each issue are designated as: beginner, intermediate, and advanced. Therefore, there can be much learned by any player from the novice weekender to the national ranked player.

• An Updated Tournament Schedule

Each year, the American Platform Tennis Association sanctions approximately 180 tournaments from California to Maine. To view the 2004-05 schedule and find out what’s going on in your region click here.

• Current Platform Tennis News and Events

Each issue of PTM offers news from tournament and event highlights, the equipment manufacturers, the court builders, the APTA, the professional instructor’s association, and much more.

• Feature Articles and Editorials

Over the past six years, PTM has featured articles from the Junior Nationals to the Senior’s Hall of fame, from celebrity players to little-known successes, and from upstart Municipal programs to the largest leagues and platform tennis organizations in the country, and from equipment specifications to the court builders.

• League Pages

A majority of the APTA’s 8,500 members has come from league enrollment. Baltimore, Chicago, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Fairfield County (CT), Long Island, Pittsburgh, and New Jersey have over 5,000 members listed into the APTA. Pages are dedicated in each issue of PTM to feature those leagues that support the APTA.

• Player Profiles

Most of the profiled players in PTM are high-ranking tournament teams; however we have snuck in many well-known tennis professionals such as Mats Wilander, the Jensen Brothers, and Martina Navratilova. All of these players explain how they got into platform tennis and how it has affected other arenas of their sport’s play.

• Product Sales and much more

PTM offers an annual paddle guide as well as recommendations of paddles for various ages and skill levels. If you are in the market for a new paddle, balls, or other platform tennis related sport equipment, click here.

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Wayne Dollard

Editor and Publisher of Platform Tennis Magazine

editor@ptmonline.com