The French Tennis Federation (FFT) is excited to announce?its 3-year collaboration with Ballman Project, the innovative NFT tennis tournament platform co-founded by tennis star Stan Wawrinka and?backed by a dozen of professional players, including Grégoire Barrère and Lucas Pouille. The agreement will see the FFT collaborating with Ballman Project?to bring virtual tennis to fans around the world.
As part of the collaboration, Ballman Project will reproduce the official Roland-Garros tennis tournament in web3 space allowing fans to engage with the tournament in a new and exciting way. The tournament will feature an exclusive Roland-Garros branded environment and will be open to anyone who owns a Ballman NFT.
The Ballman project was launched in 2022 as a collection of 6,200 exclusive and evolving NFTs that provide their holders the opportunity to play virtual tennis tournaments and earn real prize money. Each NFT represents a virtual tennis player, also known as the Ballman player, each with unique characteristics that evolve based on experience. After the big success with the 1st collection, a larger second NFT collection is planned to be released for the web3 tennis community, the freemint starting on March 14 and the public sales on March 17 (ballman.io).