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JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Given up on trying to find any info on results in Cromer - the website shows the event as finishing Friday gone, but no results posted.

Elegant Point · Futures qualifying

JonH comes home wrote:
Given up on trying to find any info on results in Cromer - the website shows the event as finishing Friday gone, but no results posted.

So hard to find anything hmm who ever runs the SM&M needs to up their game. Found this on FB, no idea who else was in the draw. Allegedly the womens event was cancelled due to lack of interest, (or lack of information)

*CROMER PROGRESS TOUR BY NOVELLUS

Congrats to all of our competitors this past week and to our eventual champion Joe Kelt who came through a tense finale against Anthony Weingarten with a 6-4 2-6 10-6 victory.

Joe becomes a first time Progress Tour Champion, scooping the coveted title, the trophy and the £2,000 winners cheque, following in the footsteps of previous Cromer champions Toby Samuel, Ryan Storrie and Oscar Weightman. A stepping stone to a great summer ahead

Not heard of Joe, but think he dropped out of college https://wsuathletics.com/sports/mens-tennis/roster/joe-kelt/12484 and Anthony is an Essex man and a Senior at Kennesaw State https://ksuowls.com/sports/mens-tennis/roster/anthony-weingarten/13368

With thanks to event sponsors Novellus Finance, HotelPlanner, our competitors, Referee John Bruley and all at Cromer Tennis & Racquets Club - who navigated some challenging weather conditions on the North Norfolk coast this week. We are fortunate to have hosted the fourth edition of this event on some of the finest grass courts in the country

Next stop the pristine acrylic courts of Aldershot Tennis Centre on the Surrey/Hampshire border - a new stop in the summer swing for the inaugural Aldershot Progress Tour by Novellus 30th June - 4th July 2025 *

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Elegant Point wrote:
JonH comes home wrote:
Given up on trying to find any info on results in Cromer - the website shows the event as finishing Friday gone, but no results posted.
So hard to find anything who ever runs the SM&M needs to up their game. Found this on FB, no idea who else was in the draw. Allegedly the womens event was cancelled due to lack of interest, (or lack of information)
*CROMER PROGRESS TOUR BY NOVELLUS
Congrats to all of our competitors this past week and to our eventual champion Joe Kelt who came through a tense finale against Anthony Weingarten with a 6-4 2-6 10-6 victory.
Joe becomes a first time Progress Tour Champion, scooping the coveted title, the trophy and the £2,000 winners cheque, following in the footsteps of previous Cromer champions Toby Samuel, Ryan Storrie and Oscar Weightman. A stepping stone to a great summer ahead
Not heard of Joe, but think he dropped out of college https://wsuathletics.com/sports/mens-tennis/roster/joe-kelt/12484 and Anthony is an Essex man and a Senior at Kennesaw State https://ksuowls.com/sports/mens-tennis/roster/anthony-weingarten/13368
With thanks to event sponsors Novellus Finance, HotelPlanner, our competitors, Referee John Bruley and all at Cromer Tennis & Racquets Club - who navigated some challenging weather conditions on the North Norfolk coast this week. We are fortunate to have hosted the fourth edition of this event on some of the finest grass courts in the country
Next stop the pristine acrylic courts of Aldershot Tennis Centre on the Surrey/Hampshire border - a new stop in the summer swing for the inaugural Aldershot Progress Tour by Novellus 30th June - 4th July 2025 *

Thanks for that and , yes, very underwhelming ! And never heard of those players in the final!

Lambda · ATP level

UTR Pro Summer Slam, Jacksonville (Florida, USA)
1st place, final
Jamie Connel (GBR) d. JanMagnus Johnson (USA) 7-5 6-4

The Summer Slam is a series of events at US colleges over the summer exclusively for current and former collegiate players. Counts towards the PTT card points race.

UTR PTT Norman (Oklahoma, USA)
1st place Final
Alan Magadan (Mex) ATP 911 d. Ilias Hirani Worthington (GBR) 1-6 6-3 6-2

Lambda · ATP level

We have several players playing for a UTR title this weekend including the Paskauskas sisters facing each other for what I believe is the first time outside of domestic GB low level competition

UTR PTT Krakow
1-4 place play-offs, semi-final
Marcus Walters (GBR) ATP943 v Jakub Prachar (CZE) UNR

UTR PTT Dusseldorf
1-4 place play-offs, semi-final
Hannah Read (GBR) UNR v Rada Zolotareva (***) WTA645
Hannah had a very impressive 3 set win over Belgium's Tilwith Di Girolami WTA886 to top her group.

UTR PTT Summer Slam Newport Beach
1-4 place play-offs, semi-final
Kristina Paskauskas (GBR) WTA849 v Gabia Paskauskas (GBR) WTA1359
The only recorded H2H I can find for them is a Bromley TC Regional Tour match in 2019 which Kristina won and an U8 match way back when.

In addition
Derrick Chen is in the 5-8 place play-offs in Dusseldorf, and a set up
Matt Upton (showing with the French flag) is in the 5-8 place play-offs in Krakow, and a set up.
Charlie Penman is in the 17-20 place play-offs in Krakow
Ola Pitak (playing under the Polish flag) is in the 17-20 place play-offs in Krakow

Lambda · ATP level

In the battle of the Paskauskai Gabia came out on top beating big sis from behind in a long tight match.

UTR PTT Summer Slam Newport Beach, USA, 1-4 play-offs
SF: Gabia Paskauskas d. Kristina Paskauskas 2-6 7-6(6) 7-6(4)

F: Gabia Paskauskas (GBR) WTA1359 v Veronica Miroshnichenko (***) WTA935

For our other players in 1-4 play-offs, Marcus lost after easily winning the 1st set. Hannah lost by a respectable 4 & 3 against her much higher ranked opponent.

Derrick Chen won and plays for 5th place today in Dusseldorf. Matt Upton played both his 5-8 play-off matches in Krakow yesterday, finishing 5th.

Lambda · ATP level

Max Basing defeats his Stanford team mate to win in Bali

UTR PTT Bali (+H)
1-4 play-off, final
Max Basing (GBR) WR 602 d. Nathan Anthony Barki (IDN) WR 1427
6-1 7-6(6)

-- Edited by Lambda on Sunday 27th of July 2025 05:40:06 PM

Lambda · ATP level

Derrick Chen won his 2nd PTT of the month in Athens, Georgia on the courts of his new college.

In an all Brit final, Luc Keonig came from a set down to take the title from his Baylor team mate, Louis Bowden, on their home college courts in Waco, Texas.

Hannah Read finished 5th in Budapest winning the 5 to 8 place play-off

Lambda · ATP level

Busy week for Brits in PTTs.

Louis Bowden gained revenge over Luc Koenig as they met again in the final in Waco, coming from a set down to take the title.
In Denver Raff Papajcik finished runner-up; Theo Coats won the 5th-8th place play off
In Krakow Marcus Walters finished runner-up; Sean Hodkin lost in the 1st-4th place semi-final; Marshall Tutu lost the 5th/6th place final; Luca Bluett lost the 9th/10th place final
In Hamburg Max Castle won the 17th/18th place final by retirement.
In Urbana, Illinois Ollie Okonkwo lost in the 1st -4th place semi-final; Tom Giles lost in the 17th-20th place semi-final

In Skopje Vlada Kozak lost the 5th/6th place final; Zainab Williams lost the 17th/18th place final; Soumeya Anane lost in the 13th-16th place semi-final

-- Edited by Lambda on Sunday 7th of September 2025 06:28:58 PM

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.

I noticed Marcus Walters stands 15th in the mens global race for the PTT

top woman is Karola Bejenaru, 57th, who is a completely unknown name to me.

dodrade · Futures qualifying

JonH comes home wrote:
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.
I noticed Marcus Walters stands 15th in the mens global race for the PTT

top woman is Karola Bejenaru, 57th, who is a completely unknown name to me.

She's a Romanian player who lives in Belfast.