Under the deal it also acquired online news site tennisweek.com. The transaction closed on December 22, 2006. Terms were not disclosed.
Tennis Week has a circulation of 60,000 subscribers and provides in-depth reports on the sport. Tennisweek.com provides instant coverage of the Grand Slams, the ATP and WTA Tours, in addition to major collegiate, junior and senior events. It reaches millions of visitors annually with up-to-the-minute scores, rankings, earnings, schedules, tournament draws and camps.
IMG plans to launch a fully re-conceptualized first issue of Tennis Week in mid-March, at the Sony Ericsson Open, with a schedule of six glossy, perfect-bound, 100+ page issues in 2007.
