Over 225 participants took part of the 2024 Blind Tennis World Championships in Lignano Sabbiadoro, Italy. This included 117 players from 20 countries and about 50 volunteers and staff. Italy 2024 was the largest IBTA event to date.

Mr Takei Miyoshi invented Blind Tennis in Japan in 1984. He was a pioneer in a new racket sport and a role model to the visually impaired. He was born in 1968 and lost his eyesight at the age of one and a half. When he was 16, as a high school student, he dreamed of playing tennis with the able-bodied and created tennis for the blind.