This is a 15K, not a 10K.



Don't make a decision now and wait till the women's wild cards are announced. If you see that there some players in qualies whom you want to check out (Rae, Ren etc.), you could go on Tuesday. If all the exciting players get wild cards, maybe you could go on Thursday instead?

Does that make any sense?

No idea about that. You better ask someone in the women's forum.



Ren should be there in qualies, but if she does well next week you never know.

Where is Redbridge guys?

Merci bucket Arka.. =]

I was hoping it was the south west.. essex is a bit too far for me tbh.
Sheddie: Im guessing that you're going.. bring back the goods [photographs] will ya'..!

who on earth is Helen Parish?

what, you mean this little snippet!

Tropicana is the title sponsor of the British Tour for the second year and is becoming well established within the tennis family. As part of the Tropicana British Tour a bi-monthly Player Award has been created to give the players some kind of recognition for their good performances.

The LTA has given the second Award to 16-year-old Helen Parish, who impressed the panel with her confidence and aggressive play at Nottingham and Tunbridge Wells. At Nottingham, which was only her second tournament of the year due to an ankle injury, Helen qualified, won a main draw match and lost to the No. 1 seed Melissa Berry 64 61. At Tunbridge Wells, Helen won three main draw matches, before losing to the No. 1 seed Rebecca Llewellyn 62 63.

"I am very glad the panel chose Helen to receive this Award, as she did extremely well at Nottingham and Tunbridge Wells. Helen wasn't overawed by her opponents, but instead demonstrated her determination and confidence at these events," says Peter Greatorex, Tropicana British Tour Manager.

"I feel very privileged to be given this Tropicana Player Award, as due to my injury, Nottingham was my second tournament of the year and to win this Award makes all my hard work in the last six months worthwhile," says Helen Parish. "I am looking forward to competing in other Tropicana events later this year to help develop my game further."

The Tropicana British Tour is used by many players as a stepping-stone from junior to full time professional tennis. It consists of twenty tournaments with a Masters event at the end of the year.

I'm going on Tuesday ! Just need to find a way to get to Redbridge...any help on good routes would be appreciated

Will do a big report and will try to take some photos....

Hopefully all 4 mens wcs go to Brit juniors and we get a good number of Brit qualifiers.....gutted that Jenny Ren has a main draw wc, won't get to watch her but am interested in watching Nebojanko, Olivia Howlett and Amy Askew who are talented juniors