Knoxville Challenger General Admission

The Helen Ross McNabb Foundation is thrilled to host the Knoxville Challenger, a seven-day professional tennis event, held in Knoxville, TN, which benefits the McNabb Center. The tournament takes place November 6-12, 2023, at the Goodfriend Indoor Tennis Center.  The Challenger series is part of the USTA Pro Circuit series, which is designed to provide opportunities to aspiring young international professional tennis players to advance to the top levels of the game.

Players competing include pros beginning their careers, pros trying to improve their ATP rankings, and top-ranked junior players. By participating in events like the Knoxville Challenger, players from the USTA Pro Circuit rise to a level of prominence in the major tour.

Many of the current top-ranked American players as well as many international stars have all competed in the Knoxville Challenger as they were climbing the world rankings. These pros will compete for a total purse of $80,000 in prize money and for valuable ATP ranking points.

Terms & Conditions 

No ticket holder or spectator may: (a) continually collect, disseminate, transmit, publish or release from the grounds of the Tournament any match scores or related statistical data during match play (from the commencement of a match through its conclusion for any commercial, betting or gambling purpose); and (b) film, photograph, broadcast, stream, publish, transmit and/or otherwise offer to the public (or assist any third party in offering to the public), on a live or on a delayed basis, in whole or in part, and whether on a free basis or subject to payment, any sound recording, photograph, video footage, motion picture, film and/or other audio-visual content captured by any mean whatsoever inside the Tournament site (except as it is allow in the Tournament Accreditation Policy). The continual use of laptop computers or other handheld electronic devices within the confines (spectator area) of the tournament match courts is prohibited. The exception of this provision is properly credentialed media, tournament vendors and tournament staff when used in the performance of their duties.

2023 Knoxville Challenger Ticket Validation and Transferability Policy

Section 1: General Information about Ticket Transferability

1. All Knoxville Challenger (the event) general admission tickets are transferable BEFORE being validated.
2. General admission tickets include:
   1. Daily tickets
   2. Weekly passes
3. All daily general admission tickets can be transferred to other people BEFORE it is validated. Once it is validated for the day, the ticket cannot be transferred or be used to enter the event venue anymore.
4. A weekly pass is valid for all days from November 6 to November 12. The weekly pass can be validated once each day. A weekly pass can be transferred to other people before it is validated for the day. Once it is validated for the day, the pass cannot be transferred or used to enter the event venue for the Day.

Section 2: Ticket Validation and Re-entering

1. The general admission tickets will only be validated during the event (November 6 – 12, 2023). Tickets cannot and will not be validated before or after the event.
2. The general admission tickets will be validated by the volunteers or staff manually or digitally with a ticket scanner.
   1. Manual validation: volunteers or staff will hole-punch or mark the valid physical tickets (a printed event ticket) on the date the ticket states and stamp the ticket holder’s arm with a stamp.
   2. Digital validation: volunteers or staff will validate the digital tickets (a printout of a digital copy or shown on a digital device) by scanning the barcode/QR code and stamp the ticket holder’s arm with a stamp
3. Each daily general admission tickets can only be validated (manually or digitally) once.
4. Each weekend pass and weekly pass can only be validated once each day of the event.
5. After the ticket or the pass is being validated for the day, ticket holders/spectator can re-enter the event venue by showing the ticketing volunteer or staff the stamped image on their arm.
6. The validation stamp image will be changed and updated each day when the gate opens.

Refund Policy

Tickets are non-refundable. In the event of an unforeseen circumstance (power outage) which prevents play, tickets will be honored for another session of day.