The Midlands’ tennis community is set to benefit from The Lawn Tennis Association's (LTA) biggest ever grassroots investment in the sport.

The Transforming British Tennis Together initiative aims to make courts across the country more useable and accessible to everyone over the next ten years.

The £250m transformation of Britain’s tennis courts comes at a time of huge momentum in elite British tennis and unprecedented levels of interest and pride in the sport, which together have inspired many more people to pick up a racket.

The LTA has committed to investing £125 million to improve community tennis facilities across the country, and plans to unlock a further £125 million through match funding from community networks with a shared vision for growing the game.

Now, the organisation is encouraging communities to work together on strong, joined up bids which will enable them to bring tennis to a wider audience.

The funding will ensure that some of the key barriers to playing tennis are overcome.

By working with communities across Britain with a real passion for tennis, the LTA aims to deliver 1,500 newly covered indoor courts, over 8,000 newly floodlit courts and nearly 3,000 court entry systems across the country over the next decade.

Details of the initiative were revealed on Thursday at Cannon Hill Park in Birmingham, which recently benefited from improvements funded by the LTA, Birmingham City Council and Sport England.

Claire Brown, LTA Head of Midland Region said: “This is an amazing and transformational opportunity for tennis in the Midlands. More and more people are enjoying the sport and there is a real appetite for the improvement and regeneration of local courts."

The LTA is now calling on tennis clubs, parks, local government, volunteers, coaches and businesses across the region to come together and register their interest in bidding for the funds to transform their local tennis courts. For more information visit lta.org.uk/TBTT