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 !