PEMBROKE PINES, Fla., MAY 22, 2023 — Jim Martz, founding father of Florida Tennis mag in 1992, has offered the award-winning newsletter to Matt Pressman, who has an intensive background within the mag business and tennis. Pressman lately introduced Florida Racquet Sports activities, LLC to finish the sale and make bigger the achieve of Florida Tennis.
Martz, who has been the writer and editor, will proceed as founder and editor managing all editorial content material, together with expanded protection of pickleball, padel, Spec tennis and different racquet sports activities. Pressman might be taking at the function of government editor and writer and can essentially oversee promoting gross sales and the growth of the Florida Tennis web page and social media platforms.
A winner of the U.S. Tennis Affiliation’s Nationwide Media Excellence Award, Florida Tennis is printed bi-monthly with a readership of over 20,000. The newsletter has a centered complimentary distribution to greater than 500 golf equipment, parks, hotels, academies and stores statewide along with paid subscribers national.
Martz used to be vp of the U.S. Tennis Writers Affiliation and has been inducted into the Miami-Dade County Tennis Corridor of Popularity. He has written a number of books, together with trainer Rick Macci’s autobiography “Macci Magic, Extracting Greatness From Your self And Others”, and “Protected Tennis.” And he edited the ebook “50 Love, Benefit Florida,” which chronicles the primary 50 years of USTA Florida. Ahead of launching Florida Tennis he coated tennis for 18 years for the Miami Usher in.
Pressman used to be a standout junior participant who skilled on the Saddlebrook tennis academy within the Tampa house. Pressman’s highschool group went directly to win the Connecticut State Championship and he later gained an athletic scholarship to the College of Connecticut the place he served as captain of the lads’s tennis group. Early in his occupation, Pressman labored at a variety of magazines together with Males’s Health, Main points, and Vibe mag the place he served as Affiliate Writer.
Florida Tennis, which used to be the legitimate newsletter of USTA Florida for 15 years starting in 1993, will proceed to hide all facets of the game from amateurs to the professional excursions. The mag used to be the primary tennis print newsletter within the country to hide pickleball, The usa’s quickest rising game, regularly beginning 3 years in the past. Since then the racquet game protection has expanded to incorporate padel and Spec tennis.
“Florida Tennis has served because the Voice of Tennis in Florida for greater than 31 years,” mentioned Martz, “and we look ahead to proceeding that legacy. I’m interested by Matt’s leading edge plans for our virtual platforms.”
“As a devoted subscriber of Florida Tennis for years, I’m extremely joyful to assist make bigger Jim’s imaginative and prescient to incorporate a extra tough on-line presence to hide the Florida Tennis scene,” mentioned Pressman. “Florida stays the crown jewel of American tennis and it’s an honor to assist spotlight the way forward for tennis within the Sunshine State.”
