UTR Tennis Tournaments (in Britain or with British Players)

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

UTR Tennis Tournaments (in Britain or with British Players)

Lambda · ATP qualifying

JonH comes home wrote:
So these UTR events and particularly Cardiff. A few questions!

- they seem to have a stronger entry than British Tour recently; do UTR events, per your prize money breakdown above, pay more than the British Tour Premier level events?
- do the UTR events have a linked structure or narrative or are they standalone? I know there is a Progress Tour and are these UTR events part of that?
- the British Tour premier events seem to be fewer than past years or is that a wrong perception? And is the British Tour dwindling a bit?
- I saw the UKPL has a couple of events this year - will they be UTR events or separate?

Basically how do UTR, UKPL, Progress Tour and British Tour all hang together or dont they and shouldnt I care about that!

I think we should view all those as nothing more than additional money events and/or additional playing opportunities.

The GB UTRs are organised by The Progress Tour. I see The Progress Tour as an organisation that puts on stand alone money events at various levels. It's not a Tour in the sense of tournaments counting towards some kind of season long points table.

UTR have introduced a points race this year for players with a PTT Tour Card. As I understand it, the top 100 in the race at the end of the year get additional prize money.

As for the rest I can't spoil all your fun in researching it. wink

Lambda · ATP qualifying

At Cardiff the results of the finals were

Alexis Canter d. James Story 6-4 6-4
Katarina Stresnakova d. Flora Johnson 6-1 6-0

I would also like to congratulate the Cardiff Met tennis social media team for an excellent job on covering the event.

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Lambda wrote:
JonH comes home wrote:
So these UTR events and particularly Cardiff. A few questions!

- they seem to have a stronger entry than British Tour recently; do UTR events, per your prize money breakdown above, pay more than the British Tour Premier level events?
- do the UTR events have a linked structure or narrative or are they standalone? I know there is a Progress Tour and are these UTR events part of that?
- the British Tour premier events seem to be fewer than past years or is that a wrong perception? And is the British Tour dwindling a bit?
- I saw the UKPL has a couple of events this year - will they be UTR events or separate?

Basically how do UTR, UKPL, Progress Tour and British Tour all hang together or dont they and shouldnt I care about that!

I think we should view all those as nothing more than additional money events and/or additional playing opportunities.

The GB UTRs are organised by The Progress Tour. I see The Progress Tour as an organisation that puts on stand alone money events at various levels. It's not a Tour in the sense of tournaments counting towards some kind of season long points table.

UTR have introduced a points race this year for players with a PTT Tour Card. As I understand it, the top 100 in the race at the end of the year get additional prize money.

As for the rest I can't spoil all your fun in researching it.

biggrin Thank you - Ill leave it there !

Lambda · ATP qualifying

Blagoevgrad M03, 1st Place Playoffs, Final
Marcus Walters finished runner-up, losing to George Lazarov (BUL) in the final

Next week's UTR entries
Dubai: Freddie Ridout
Gyor: Cian McDonnell
Newport Beach: Millen Hurrion, Adam Jones, Joe Leather

Boca Raton: Gabia Paskauskas
Yokohama: Kakou Narita (?) [shows as GBR in UTR but JPN in ITF]

Live scores, schedule can be found here

-- Edited by Lambda on Sunday 9th of March 2025 02:18:40 PM

dodrade · Futures qualifying

Hep is playing In Hungary this week.

Katie Swan featured on a UTR post on Instagram yesterday but not sure if she's playing yet.

paulisi · Tennis legend

UTR seems to be a favourite for the lower ranked players - guaranteed money and multiple games.

Lambda · ATP qualifying

Congratulations to Indi Spink who won the UTR PTT Carvoeiro today, defeating 3 WTA ranked players in straight sets during the week. Zuchanska (WTA 1001) in the group stage (2&3) then

SF: Indi Spink d. Min Lui (WTA 1230) 7-5 6-4
F: Indi Spink d. Daria Yesypchuk (WTA 740) 6-4 6-4

Next stop the Loughborough PTT this week.

Lambda · ATP qualifying

In the Loughborough PTT the entries are

Aimee Bromfield, Marelie Raath, Danielle Daley, Justine Bryson (CAN), Aneta Laboutkova (CZE)
Megan Davies (2002), Jessica Gunter, Zainab Williams, Anna Ozerova (LAT), Katarina Stresnakova (SVK)
Lucia Cassidy, Min Mahmut, Erin Pearce, Indi Spink, Madelynn Ludwig (CAN)
Eliz Maloney, Amelie Brooks, Elizabeth Kapari Bagerbaseh (GHA), Melissa Boyden (NED), Sarah Hawkshaw (IRE)

Finn Bass, Kyle Rae, James Beavan, Patrick Foley, Liam Delicata (MLT)
Sean Hodkin, Joe Leather, Jamie Diack, Ewen Lumsden, David Quayle
Ryan Golesworthy, Max Benaim, Joe Young, Adam Jones, Tiran Sanghera
Rahul Dhokia, Cian McDonnell, Stefan Cooper, Marshall Tutu, Jay Johnson-Hauldren

Madadman · Grand Slam Champion

Felix Mischker is down for a UTR tournament in Japan this week and one the following week.

Lambda · ATP qualifying

Lambda wrote:
In the Loughborough PTT the entries are

Aimee Bromfield, Marelie Raath, Danielle Daley, Justine Bryson (CAN), Aneta Laboutkova (CZE)
Megan Davies (2002), Jessica Gunter, Zainab Williams, Anna Ozerova (LAT), Katarina Stresnakova (SVK)
Lucia Cassidy, Min Mahmut, Erin Pearce, Indi Spink, Madelynn Ludwig (CAN)
Eliz Maloney, Amelie Brooks, Elizabeth Kapari Bagerbaseh (GHA), Melissa Boyden (NED), Sarah Hawkshaw (IRE)

Finn Bass, Kyle Rae, James Beavan, Patrick Foley, Liam Delicata (MLT)
Sean Hodkin, Joe Leather, Jamie Diack, Ewen Lumsden, David Quayle
Ryan Golesworthy, Max Benaim, Joe Young, Adam Jones, Tiran Sanghera
Rahul Dhokia, Cian McDonnell, Stefan Cooper, Marshall Tutu, Jay Johnson-Hauldren

The Loughborough winners are Ewen Lumsden and Eliz Maloney

Ewen beat Finn Bass 3 & 3
Eliz beat Aneta Laboutkova (CZE/WTA662) 6-3 3-6 6-2