About CALTA

CALTA is a 501(c)(7) volunteer-run social tennis league for women formed in 2000.  Play consists of four courts of doubles played Tuesdays at 9:30am across the Lowcountry at 20 participating tennis centers. In 2023-24 CALTA had 1,128 members.

The Ladies' City Tennis League of Charleston had its unofficial start in 1973 when members of several area tennis centers decided to play regularly on Tuesday mornings.

By 2000, City League had grown to 48 teams playing in three divisions that were run independently.

At a joint captains' meeting for all three divisions on April 3, 2000, the captains voted to form a single league and to change the name from City League to CALTA.

They approved the formation of an Ad Hoc Committee of twelve volunteers who would write a Charter for CALTA and would install a Board of Directors by June 2001. This Charter was adopted at the annual captains' meeting on March 26, 2001 and was updated in 2004, 2007, 2014, 2015, 2017 and 2020.

In 2022 the Charter was updated to reflect the Board's decision to discontinue the annual season-end luncheon.