The Denver Racquets defeated the Philadelphia Freedoms in the WTT Finals to win the league's first championship.
The Western Division was also split into two sections (Gulf Plains and Pacific) which also had four teams each.
The coach of the home team decided whether to play men's or women's singles first and fourth or second and fifth.
The coach of the home team decided whether men's or women's singles would be played second or fourth.
Games were decided by the first player or doubles team to reach four points with no-ad scoring.
Set tiebreaker games were nine total points with the first player or doubles team to reach five the winner.
[8] Also before the draft, the Cincinnati franchise had been sold to Joseph Zingale and relocated to Cleveland.
[9] Before the start of the 1974 season, the Phoenix franchise was sold to Howard Fine, Gerald Klauber, Joseph Rivkin and Robert E. Bradley, Jr. who moved it to Baltimore.
Also before the start of the 1974 season, the San Diego Swingers were sold to Don Kelleher who moved them to Honolulu.
They were listed in official WTT standings as the San Francisco Golden Gaters.
The team identification and naming history of the 16 charter franchises from the founding of WTT to the start of the inaugural season is as follows: WTT conducted a lottery to determine the order of selection for its inaugural draft held on August 3, 1973.
The table below shows the individual players and doubles teams who had the best winning percentages in each of the five events in WTT.