The New South Wales Hardcourt Tennis Association was inaugurated in 1924 with a view to promoting and organising tennis within the Metropolitan area of Sydney.

The main activities of the Association are to:

• Organise and conduct the Slazenger Interdistrict Competition

• Organise and conduct the Metropolitan Hardcourt Championships

• Organise the Metropolitan Round Robin Series

• Conduct a number of Metropolitan Training Squads in association with Tennis New South Wales

• Organise development activities for talented junior players

There are now seventeen metropolitan Associations affiliated with the Hardcourt Association. They include:

• Berala-Carramar Hardcourt Tennis Association Inc.

• Blacktown Tennis Incorporated

• Canterbury Bankstown Tennis Association Inc.

• Eastern Suburbs Tennis Association Inc.

• Eastwood-Thornleigh District Tennis Association Inc.

• Fairfield and District Tennis Association Inc.

• Hills District Tennis Association

• Hornsby Kuring-gai District Tennis Association Inc.

• Illawarra Suburbs Lawn Tennis Association Limited

• Manly Warringah Tennis Association Ltd.

• Marrickville & District Hardcourt Tennis Association

• North-Western Suburbs Tennis Association

• Northern Suburbs Tennis Association Incorporated

• New South Wales Catholic Lawn Tennis Association Incorporated

• Parramatta-Baulkham Hills & District Hardcourt Tennis Association Inc.

• Southern Districts Tennis Association

• Western Suburbs Tennis Inc.

Hardcourt is an incorporated entity under the Associations Incorporation Act.