Tennis participation rates?

Question

what are the participation rates for tennis proffesionally and amateurs in the UK - amateurs being us and professionals being elite athlete. when i mean participation rate i mean percentage of people playing tennis, proffesional and amatuer in the UK?

thank you

Answer 1

These numbers are rough because a lot of the data is based on surveys, but roughly 3 million people play tennis in UK and the population is around 60 million so it's 5%. A miniscule number are professional even if you count teaching pros less than 3 thousand or  0.1%.