Money Tournaments

RedSquirrel · Satellite level

RE: Money Tournaments

RedSquirrel · Satellite level

To complete the above Ed and Dave led their club to victory in the Final of the Caro Cup on Friday. You can watch (with commentary) at here (Facebook)

Ed played 4 singles matches in the month long competition winning 3 and losing 1. In the doubles with Dave O'Have they also won 3 and lost 1.

In the women's competition Suzy Larkin has won all 5 of her singles matches, most of them fairly easily, and is 3-2 in doubles although her club hasn't done so well.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

A copy of Madadman's post in the Jonny O'Mara thread:

Played some sort of tournament at the weekend in Hong Kong with Joe Salisbury. Clearwater Bay country club according to his tweet. They won 6 games in 2 days to take the win and a nice $200k!

JonH · All-time great

Here is a link albeit without results

www.tennishk.org/en/news/11-en/latest-news/2143-hong-kong-tennis-champions-cup-2018

Prizemoney was 200k Hong Kong dollars though! Which is about 25k usd, so maybe 18k pounds? Not bad though still!

Madadman · Masters Series Champion

Yeah I thought about that after Id posted! Didnt have a clue on the exchange rate to HK Dollars. Turns out its 0.10 to the pound. Still £10k each for a weekends work isnt bad!

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

A copy of Red Squirrel's post in Suzy Larkin's thread:

A belated congratulations to Suzy who won 3 back to back Kiwi Money Tournaments back in February and March which Tennis New Zealand were piloting this year.

www.instagram.com/p/BuU2USGA2KV/
www.instagram.com/p/Bu1_yiOgdKr/

the addict · Tennis legend

Gregory Howe
@greghowetennis
8 minutes ago

On a roll, 2nd win of the year! Taking home the trophy and U$600...about the same as a semi-final in a 15,000 Futures (which is frankly ridiculous). #tennis

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

A real non-story but just because it got posted in another thread and to be coherent....

Emilie Lindh Gallagher played an important money tournament in France last autumn.

Won her first match (against a player ranked about British Tour entry level) and then lost to Lou Brouleau (WTA top 500)

huntley93 · Strong Club Player

the giffnock open took place this weekend in glasgow, several players with junior/ senior wolrd rankings took part with a big prize pot £1000 for winner and £125 for 1/4 finalist. (not bad for your local grade 3!)

Hamish Stewart bt Ewan Moore 6-4 6-4 in the final. Giffnock tennis club live streamed the final to facebook, see link below for anyone interested, and draw from lta website

www.facebook.com/GiffnockTennisSquashHockey/

lta.tournamentsoftware.com/sport/draw.aspx

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

That is great, Huntley. I've always got a soft spot for Hamish, after he beat Moutet (now flying very high in the atp rankings) at roehampton.

When I've finally got decent internet, I'll watch the stream too

Madadman · Masters Series Champion

Billy Harris appears to be playing on tatp tour in Thailand at the moment. I assume its the equivalent of our British tour. Hes into the second round. First round was worth £80 with the tournament winner picking up roughly £1000.

m.facebook.com/photo.php

Born2WinTennis · Club Coach

Not related to money tournaments, but just the tour in general. Does anyone know who owns the majority of the ATP tour tournaments. I think IMG own a few of them and therefore can hand out wildcards to the players on their books. Do National Associations own most of them? Like the LTA own Queens I guess.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Madadman wrote:
Billy Harris appears to be playing on tatp tour in Thailand at the moment. I assume its the equivalent of our British tour. Hes into the second round. First round was worth £80 with the tournament winner picking up roughly £1000.

m.facebook.com/photo.php

For the sake of completeness, just to copy and paste Madadman's excellent updates about Billy's success:

"Took out the #1 seed in the quarters. Who is ranked 579 atp".

"Billy took the title on the TATP tour. Beating the 2nd seed in the final 6-3 5-7 7-6".

Well done, Billy.

Born2WinTennis · Club Coach

If a player had to just pick one country to play tournaments in for a whole year and wanted to win as many points as possible, what would the potential countries of choice be? Tunisia, Eygpt, US?

And if the player wanted to earn as much money as possible in non-ranking events what would the top countries be? France, Germany, Italy?

Lambda · Challenger level

Tiffany William is playing the Kunal Patel San Francisco (KPSF) Open this week which has a $40,000 prize fund split equally between the men and the women. I mention this only because she won this event last year beating the 2022 defending champion Urszula Radwanska in the final.

edit: Here's Tiff with her trophy and presentation cheque from last year

This year Tiffany is seeded 4. She'll do well if she defends the title with the top 2 seeds here being Iryna Shymanovich (WTA230) and Radwanska (429). Play starts Wednesday and continues to Sunday. I'll have to rely on social media updates to see how she does as the USTA have recently taken a leaf out of UTR's playbook and now forces you to register to see their draws.

Max Basing is also entered (by Stanford) and he is the 4th seed but I guess he has other plans now.

-- Edited by Lambda on Monday 14th of October 2024 05:00:48 AM