Professional Tournaments
Professional Tournaments
Qualifying Tournaments (12pm-3pm)
December 12 (Singles)
December 19th (Doubles)
Main Draw Pro Tournaments (12pm)
December 13th (Singles)
December 20th (Doubles)
Location is the Duluth High School Tennis courts, just up the street from Downtown Duluth
For Advanced players ages 16+
Cost to play the qualifying for singles is $30, and cost for a doubles team to play the doubles qualifying is $40
Maximum draw is 8 players/teams
The Qualifying Tournaments will be open to all intermediate-advanced players, and the Pro Tournaments are invitation only.
The winners of the doubles qualifying tournament will play in the Pro Doubles Tournament.
The winner of the singles qualifying tournament will play in the Pro Singles tournament.
The players in the pro tournaments include current and former ATP players, ITF World Tour players, Top 5 Nationally ranked players, Division 1 college players (Schools including GA Tech and Georgia State), and also high-level players from Russia and India. You can find more information in the "Pro Tournaments" tab.
These tournaments include Singles, Doubles, and Specialty tournaments (such as wooden racquet & metal racquet tournaments). The players involved are mostly College, ITF, and ATP players, as well as players who received wildcards into the tournaments by winning Qualifying Tournaments. The matches are featured on the Trick Shot Tennis YouTube page:
The following are some of the players who played these top-level tournaments and their tennis backgrounds:
Maël Kes. From New Delhi, India. #2 ranked singles player in Georgia.
Howard Huang. Played tennis for Georgia Tech.
Zachary Knudsen. From Minnesota. Played tennis for University of Wisconsin.
Alvin Lam. Former Duluth High School #1 singles player.
Anthony Molinet. Former Duluth High School #1 singles player. Played #1 Doubles for Oglethorpe University.
Kirk Zhao. Played tennis for Oglethorpe University (#2 singles). Has a 2-0 record against Christopher Eubanks.
Alvin Lam, Ethan Geia, Eddie Holmes, Ben Leonard, Joseph Lee, and Daniel Lee. All are former or current #1 singles players for the Duluth High School tennis team.
Joshua Weston National tournament player
Tyler Stice. Ranked #854 in the World (ATP Singles Rankings). Played #1 for Auburn University.
Rob Johnson. Formerly ranked #1357 in the World (ATP Rankings).
Joseph Bishop. Ranked #2032 in the World (ATP Rankings)
Benjamin Hirsch (Coach Ben). Ranked #4 in the US in Doubles (USTA Open Rankings). Played #1 Doubles for Oglethorpe University.
Josh Rosenberg. Played for at Oglethorpe University.
Anthony Hirsch. Professional tennis Commentator and interviewer. Interviewed players at Wimbledon.
Kirill Pervun. Played Division 2 college tennis.
As of 2024, Trick Shot Tennis has been setting up Professional tennis tournaments on its YouTube channel. It has it's own proprietary player rating system, and in 2026 will be the first set of amateur tournaments that anyone can play in order to try to compete and raise his TST Ranking enough to play against the ATP Pros who play the tournaments.