Few sports hold the type of sway that tennis has on the Tar Heel State, with North Carolina producing several high-quality pro players and hosting some of the best collegiate programs the country.
Between longtime ATP standouts like John Isner of Greensboro and some of the sport’s older talents, such as John Sadri and Tim Wilkison, North Carolina is no stranger to the various surfaces on which tennis is played.
With National Tennis Week being this week from June 25 to July 1, BetCarolina.com took a break from covering NC sports betting news and decided to look at which states across the U.S. are the most interested in the game of tennis.
BetCarolina.com utilized 4 combined data points to develop the ranking of states from most to least into tennis. We utilized Google Trend’s 5-year search interest of the term, “Tennis,” Google Trend’s 5-year search interest of the term, “Tennis Courts Near Me,” and then awarded 5 bonus points for the states that have a Top 25 city for players or courts listed on Global Tennis Network.
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North Carolina wound up ranking sixth nationally in the state’s interest in tennis — sandwiched between No. 5 New Jersey and No. 7 New York.
The Tar Heel State’s biggest point generator for tennis was the state’s search interest for “tennis courts near me,” scoring 43 points out of North Carolina’s total of 101 in that category alone.
The next biggest point generator for North Carolina was search interest for “tennis,” notching another 38 points for the Tar Heel State to propel them past other locales — such as No. 8 Massachusetts (93 points), No. 9 Connecticut (88 points) and No. 10 Maryland (86 points).
Nationally, North Carolina finished behind Florida (147 points), California (134 points), Texas (121 points), Georgia (105 points) and New Jersey (102 points).
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