How many people play tennis in Australia? Tennis participation statistics
AusPlay calendar year 2025, Australian Sports Commission
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Tennis in Australia, in four numbers
- 1,118,000 adults aged 15+ played tennis in the 12 months to December 2025 (AusPlay CY2025).
- 187,000 children aged 0 to 14 played tennis in the same period, as reported by a parent or guardian.
- Both figures were published by the Australian Sports Commission on 30 April 2026 and cover January to December 2025.
- AusPlay data is licensed CC BY-NC-ND 4.0: cite it with the attribution line at the foot of this page.
In calendar year 2025, 1,118,000 Australian adults aged 15 and over and 187,000 children aged 0 to 14 played tennis at least once, according to the AusPlay survey released by the Australian Sports Commission on 30 April 2026. This page sets out those figures with their population, period and source so a journalist, a council officer or a club committee can cite them without chasing the table themselves.
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How many Australians play tennis
AusPlay counts a person as a tennis participant if they played tennis at least once in the 12 months before their interview, in any setting: a club competition, a coached lesson, a social hit on a council court or a school program. The adult count therefore includes the once-a-year Christmas player alongside the pennant regular, which is why the frequency split in the AusPlay tables matters when a story is about committed players rather than reach.
- Participant: an adult who played tennis at least once in the 12 months before interview, in any setting.
- Adults 15+: people aged 15 and over, interviewed directly by AusPlay.
- Children 0-14: organised tennis only, reported by a parent or guardian for one child in the household.
- Jan-Dec 2025: the calendar-year data period; the release date is 30 April 2026.
- In AusPlay tables: a split the Commission publishes that was not part of the verified figure set for this page.
| Measure | Figure | Population | Period | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adults who played tennis | 1,118,000 | Adults 15+ | Jan-Dec 2025 | AusPlay CY2025 |
| Children who played tennis | 187,000 | Children 0-14 | Jan-Dec 2025 | AusPlay CY2025 |
| Gender split | In AusPlay tables | Adults 15+ | Jan-Dec 2025 | AusPlay CY2025 |
| Frequency split | In AusPlay tables | Adults 15+ | Jan-Dec 2025 | AusPlay CY2025 |
Adults and children are counted differently
The 1,118,000 figure is adults aged 15 and over, interviewed directly. The 187,000 figure is children aged 0 to 14, and it comes from a parent or guardian in the same household answering on the child's behalf. AusPlay only asks about organised activity for children, so a child who hits a ball against the garage wall with no club, coach or school involvement is not in the 187,000, while an adult playing socially is in the 1,118,000. Adding the two together gives a total that mixes two definitions; report them side by side instead.
Trend: what the series does and does not allow
AusPlay's earlier releases reported on financial years, and the calendar-year release covering January to December 2025 is the figure verified for this page. A financial-year adult tennis count set against a calendar-year one is not a like-for-like change, so this page prints no year-on-year percentage for tennis. When the Australian Sports Commission publishes the next calendar-year release, the two calendar-year points can be compared directly and this page will be updated with the change and its dates.
Methodology, from the primary release
AusPlay is a national telephone survey run continuously across the year for the Australian Sports Commission. Adults aged 15 and over are interviewed directly and asked which sports and physical activities they took part in over the previous 12 months, how often, and whether the activity was organised by a club, association, coach or school. The CY2025 release covers interviews conducted between January and December 2025 and was published on 30 April 2026. Results are weighted to the Australian population, so the counts on this page are population estimates with a sampling margin, not a count of registrations.
- Survey: AusPlay, Australian Sports Commission, computer-assisted telephone interviewing.
- Population: adults 15+ interviewed directly; children 0-14 reported by a parent or guardian.
- Period: calendar year 2025 (January to December); release date 30 April 2026.
- Measure: played tennis at least once in the 12 months before interview.
How to cite these figures
AusPlay data is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 licence. Reproduce the figures unchanged, do not use them commercially without the Commission's permission, and carry this attribution line wherever the figures appear:
- Australian Sports Commission - www.ausport.gov.au
- Suggested citation: Australian Sports Commission, AusPlay, calendar year 2025 results (released 30 April 2026), tennis participation, adults 15+ and children 0-14.
- Link to the AusPlay page at the ASC Clearinghouse for Sport rather than to this page, so readers reach the primary tables.
What 1.1 million adult players means for a tennis club
Because the adult figure counts every setting, it includes players who are not members of any club. Those are the casual players a club can reach with a public booking page: a social session on a Thursday night, a cardio tennis block, a court a visitor can hire online without ringing the clubhouse. A club that only markets to its existing membership is competing for the small committed slice of that number and ignoring the rest.
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Where this comes from
- 1,118,000 adults and 187,000 children played tennis in 2025
- AusPlay, Clearinghouse
- AusPlay CY2025 was released on 30 April 2026
- ASC (ausport.gov.au)
- AusPlay data is licensed CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence
- Gender and frequency splits are in the AusPlay data tables
- AusPlay, Clearinghouse
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