The Progress Tour - Prize Money Events Retweeted Barry Fulcher @Barry_Fulcher · 12m Claycourt Champs Queenswood 2-5 June £5,500 Prize Money Open to all competitors! Minimum of 3 matches for all entrants Mens/Womens £££ Trophy£1k Second place medal£500 Third place medal£250 QF £125
Is this event still taking place this coming few days and anyone any idea on entries ?
THere's a picture of Jodie on the poster, but that might be a general poster:
This gives a full list of events during the summer
As you can see, there's good prize money (£10k at the showcase event at Sutton) and it's great to see the option for competitive play.
Looks exciting - hope they post results and entry lists , presumably with that prize money it will get fields to equal the British Tour , maybe not quite the UK Pro League?
It's been going for a while - last year (or was it the year before???) they posted results, and tables, and pools, I seem to remember.
They target US college players, and would be college players, with their publicity (not exclusively, but the UTR ranking is an important part of it) so that's reflected in the entry lists
Quite a few players of note are playing in the UTR Progress Tour event at Hatfield
Alicia Barnett is there, as well as Alexis Canter, and Tiffany William (good to see her name again).
Also Josh Rose, Mike Shaw, Pete Alam and some youngsters like Jojo Bach and Daisy Chapman
In the women's draw, Lissey Barnett will play Katarina Stresnakova in the final
Jojo Bach won the consolation draw
3rd & 4th also play off (Tiff v Katherine Mansfield), and even the losers in the consolation play off - it certainly guarantees everyone the max of matches.
I think Finn Bass won too - I was watching a little - he was 5-1 up and when I looked again, the screen went blank (although one score site still has it as 5-1)