Tennis Canada wins International Tennis Federation award for promoting gender equality

Tennis Canada has won the International Tennis Federation's Gold Advantage All Award for its initiatives to promote gender equality in the sport.

This year, the organization appointed former WTA player Valérie Tétreault as tournament director of the Montreal National Bank Open.

Tétreault is the only woman to serve as the tournament director of an ATP 1000 event.

Tennis Canada said in a release that its board of directors is near full gender parity, and the leadership team has achieved full parity.

The tennis federations of Australia (silver) and New Zealand (bronze) were also honoured by the ITF.