Caribbean Circuit

It declined in importance in the early 1970s due to an increase in indoor tournaments being staged,.

The Caribbean Circuit[5] which was a major sub-circuit of the worldwide ILTF Circuit that began in the early 1920s reaching prominence during the 1950s and 1960s.

Officials from the participating regional and national tennis associations, together with tournament organisers usually met in the summer of the preceding year to agree a schedule of events, and draw up a list of players they wished to invite to participate in the circuit.

The circuit declined in importance in the early 1970s as a direct result in a rise in prestige of new indoor tennis tournaments at the time.

[6] Not all tournaments listed were staged simultaneously a schedule of usually eight to twelve tournaments participated each year over a period of two months,[3] during the peak decades of the 1950s and 1960s though this varied.

Map of the Caribbean Region