About tennisSPORT

tennisSPORT

tennisSPORT is a German specialist magazine for tennis insiders, published four times a year as the training-science companion to the consumer title tennis MAGAZIN and the working tool of the tennis profession, from the club coach to the federation official. It addresses tennis coaches, sports scientists, tennis business participants, and travel operators, with its thematic focuses on training, competition, psychology, and business, the four pillars of the tennis profession's knowledge needs. The magazine is published by Jahr Media in Hamburg as the "little sister" of the tennis MAGAZIN, and its editorial production is handled by AEMEDIA, whose managing director Andreas Eckhoff, a former tennis MAGAZIN editor from the title's most successful phases, took the editorial lead. The annual subscription costs 39.80 euros domestically and 44 euros abroad, the single issue is 12 euros, and a trial subscription is available at 12 euros.

Overview

tennisSPORT answers the question that unites tennis coaches, team captains, competitive players, and club sports directors: how can training be optimized? Four times a year, each at the end of a quarter, the magazine delivers the latest findings from sports science, proposes training units, explains what preparation should look like, and shows which methods lead to peak performance, giving coaches, team captains, competitive players, and club sports directors the answers to their central question. Books and training aids are regularly presented to make tennis training easier, completing the magazine's service for the coaching profession.

The magazine cooperates with the German Tennis Federation (DTB), the International Tennis Federation (ITF), and the Swiss Tennis Federation, the only sports specialist magazine to work with all three, guaranteeing the highest quality and practicability for each article and anchoring the title in the organized tennis world. Readers of the Deutsche Tennis Zeitung receive tennisSPORT as part of their subscription, and the magazine's sold circulation of 3,183 copies reflects its specialist audience of tennis insiders rather than a mass readership. The sold circulation was reported at 3,183 copies with 3,850 distributed, figures from the specialist-press directory that reflect the title's focused insider audience.

Distinct from its big sister, tennisSPORT is not a consumer magazine about the professional tour but a working tool for the tennis profession: the coaches who train the players, the scientists who research the game, the business people who organize it, and the travel operators who serve the tennis tourists.

The federation the magazine cooperates with is the world's largest tennis organization. The Deutscher Tennis Bund, founded on 19 May 1902 in Berlin as the Deutscher Lawn Tennis Bund by 22 clubs with around 2,500 members, today counts nearly 1.5 million memberships in some 8,700 clubs with about 45,000 courts, making it the third-largest sports federation in Germany. Organized in 17 state associations and based at Hamburg's Rothenbaum — also the home of the combined Hamburg European Open — the DTB licenses around 15,000 coaches, the professional audience the magazine's training-science program is written for.

History

In 2020, the Hamburg publisher Jahr Media took tennisSPORT into its portfolio as the "little sister" of the tennis MAGAZIN, the German tennis magazine that has appeared since 1976 from the Jahr Top Special Verlag with ten issues per year, a reach of 0.31 million readers, and a sold circulation of 18,040 copies in the first quarter of 2017 under editor-in-chief Andrej Antic. The tennis MAGAZIN itself had absorbed the Deutsche Tennis Zeitung, the German tennis newspaper first published in 1948 and bought by Schmidt and Dreisilker in 1981, which ceased to trade under its old name in 2018 and was rebranded as tennis MAGAZIN.

For tennisSPORT's production, Jahr Media commissioned AEMEDIA, the editorial production company that publishers regularly task with complex magazine projects, four times a year, assembling the editorial teams and implementing the magazine concept from idea and research to text, photography, and production. The editorial lead was taken by AEMEDIA managing director Andreas Eckhoff, who had belonged to the tennis MAGAZIN's editorial team in its most successful phases in the 1980s and 1990s, bringing a special affinity for the tennis sport to the title and a deep knowledge of the German tennis media landscape.

The magazine's cooperation with the DTB, the ITF, and Swiss Tennis anchored its scientific credibility from the start, and its distribution through the Deutsche Tennis Zeitung subscription gave it a direct channel to the organized tennis world, reaching the coaches and officials where they already read.

Coverage and Content

tennisSPORT's editorial program follows the training year. Training coverage presents the newest sports-science findings and translates them into concrete training units, from technique drills to conditioning programs, making the science implementable in daily club practice. Competition coverage addresses the preparation for tournaments and team matches, the periodization of the season, and the methods for reaching peak performance at the right moment, the competitive knowledge that team captains and tournament players need.

Psychology coverage examines the mental side of the game: concentration, motivation, dealing with pressure, and the coach-player relationship, the factors that decide matches at equal technical level. Business coverage addresses the tennis economy: the clubs, the academies, the travel operators, and the professionals who make their living from the sport, from the tennis business participants to the scientists who research the game. Book reviews and training-aid presentations complete the offering, introducing the publications and tools that support the coaching work and make tennis training easier to handle.

The cooperation with the DTB, the ITF, and Swiss Tennis flows into the articles, ensuring that the training recommendations meet the federations' standards and can be implemented in club practice, from the local club's training court to the national team's preparation. The quarterly rhythm, each issue appearing at the end of a quarter, aligns the magazine with the season's phases, from the winter preparation to the summer tournament peak.

Organization and Ownership

tennisSPORT is published by Jahr Media, the Hamburg publisher that took the magazine into its portfolio in 2020 as the little sister of the tennis MAGAZIN from the Jahr Top Special Verlag, pairing the consumer title with its training-science companion. The editorial production is handled by AEMEDIA, with managing director Andreas Eckhoff as editorial lead, a veteran of the tennis MAGAZIN's most successful editorial years.

The magazine's cooperation partners are the German Tennis Federation, the International Tennis Federation, and Swiss Tennis, whose collaboration guarantees the articles' quality and practicability, making tennisSPORT the only sports specialist magazine with this triple federation backing. Financial details of the magazine's operations are not publicly confirmed beyond the subscription prices documented in the specialist-press directory: 39.80 euros annually domestically, 44 euros abroad, 12 euros for the single issue, with a trial subscription at 12 euros and a student subscription at 34.95 euros.

Digital Presence

tennisSPORT's digital home is tennissport.de, where the magazine presents its content and subscription offering, with the annual subscription at 39.80 euros domestically and 44 euros abroad, and the AEMEDIA site documenting the title's editorial concept. The AEMEDIA production company's site documents the title's editorial concept, its production four times a year, and its positioning as the magazine for tennis insiders. The tennis MAGAZIN's website at tennismagazin.de carries the big sister's daily tennis news, while tennisSPORT's site serves the training-science niche.

Dedicated apps, newsletters, podcasts, or social media channels for the tennisSPORT brand are not documented in detail in the sources reviewed; the brand's digital presence rests on its website tennissport.de and its integration into the Jahr Media tennis portfolio alongside the tennis MAGAZIN. The print magazine, appearing four times a year at the end of each quarter with a sold circulation of 3,183 copies, remains the title's core product for the tennis insiders it serves.