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JonH comes home


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And the website format write up

The UK Pro League (known as the UK Pro Series in 2020) is a professional tennis tournament, where British pro tennis players compete in nine individual week-long qualifying events leading to a Final Week where the UK Pro Champion is decided.

Each event week is an individual week-long qualifying event where players earn League points in order to qualify for the UK Pro League Final week.

Each week consists of a 16 player mens and 12 womens draw with players split into four pools of 4 or 3 to play a round robin format ahead of playing quarter finals, semis and final ranking matches over the weekend. Click the button below to see a chart that outlines the weekly format and click on the tabs below that to read more the rules for each phase of the event week.

The League has a Prize Fund in excess of £750,000 and will be broadcast on BT Sport and Tennis Channel in the UK.

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Thing is the format changes dont help in terms of knowing how the league table is shaping up.

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Surprised that Eliz isn't playing. She was in the Halton team that won the National League Open finals yesterday, alongside Dani, Anna Popescue, Emma Hurst, Lucy Brown, Amalie Brooks and Isabelle Marshall. Emily App and Alice played for DL Raynes Park.

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In week 7, Monday, there were wins against the ATP rankings for:

Ben Jones over Billy Harris
Giles Hussey over Luke Johnson

Also, Quayle, Hodkin, Brady and Lignett


In the girls, there were wins for Freya, Sonay, Emily App & Emma Wilson

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In the women, Nadia Rawon beat Tiff.

Emily App and Alice Gillan won.

Freya lost a close battle with Stresnakova


In the men, wins for Dan Cox, Ewan Moore, Billy, Luke J, Giles Hussey and Ben Jones



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the addict wrote:

Surprised that Eliz isn't playing. She was in the Halton team that won the National League Open finals yesterday, alongside Dani, Anna Popescue, Emma Hurst, Lucy Brown, Amalie Brooks and Isabelle Marshall. Emily App and Alice played for DL Raynes Park.

 Eliz is taking a well-earned break this week. Great performance by the Halton team to take the title for the first time.



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JonH comes home wrote:

Ps above lifted from website not my comments!

Lots of new names to me this week?

 Strong women's entry this week-no weak players.



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I hadn't paid much attention to this , and I'm really impressed with the format - saves players a bundle on travel expenses, carbon emissions, and gives them all a decent number of matches. I think the ITF could/should look at restructuring their tournaments along these lines.

For most players at this level, these tournaments represent their only real chance to actually earn sufficient funds, purely by playing, to continue playing. That seems to me a much healthier situation than making funding dependent on the grace and favour of a committee of LTA bureaucrats.

And with a 100% success rate in previous women's winners transitioning and going on to win the US Open in the following season...



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Good points, WimblyT.

In the women today, wins for:

Sonay, Stresnakova, Dani D and Emma Wilson


In the men, wins for:

Ben Jones, Dan COx, Adam Jones, Billy Harris, Liam Hignett and Sean H

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Anyone know what the tie breaking rules are for being level on points in the group? As Ben Jones and Billy Harris should both have 7. Jones has won all 3. So Id assume wins would be the first decision maker?

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wimdledont wrote:

I hadn't paid much attention to this , and I'm really impressed with the format - saves players a bundle on travel expenses, carbon emissions, and gives them all a decent number of matches. I think the ITF could/should look at restructuring their tournaments along these lines.

For most players at this level, these tournaments represent their only real chance to actually earn sufficient funds, purely by playing, to continue playing. That seems to me a much healthier situation than making funding dependent on the grace and favour of a committee of LTA bureaucrats.

And with a 100% success rate in previous women's winners transitioning and going on to win the US Open in the following season...

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Dan Cox and Ewan Moore both won this morning and move in to the last 8. Ben Jones and Billy Harris had already qualified yesterday. Liam Hignett and Sean Hodkin also nailed on, just vying for top spot. Group B is between Giles Hussey, Tiarnan Brady (who he, dont know this name at all) and Luke Johnson

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JonH comes home wrote:

Dan Cox and Ewan Moore both won this morning and move in to the last 8. Ben Jones and Billy Harris had already qualified yesterday. Liam Hignett and Sean Hodkin also nailed on, just vying for top spot. Group B is between Giles Hussey, Tiarnan Brady (who he, dont know this name at all) and Luke Johnson

 Remember Tiarnan Brady was studying Sports Performance at Bath where he played doubles with Ben Jones. Must have graduated a few years ago.think hes now a coach?



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In the women's QFs, good win for Alice Gillan over Stresnakova, 7-5 6-2

Sonay beat Freya 11-9 in the MTB

Emily App beat Nadia 0 & 0

Emma Wilson beat Dani Daley in a MTB

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Getting used to new format, no qfs in mens, so semis are hodkin v hussey and Cox v Harris. Not sure how Billy got there, he was group runner up to Ben Jones, presumably Ben Jones pulled out?

Billy could well lead the overall league once this week is done.

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