2022 British Tournaments

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

RE: 2022 British Tournaments

the addict · Tennis legend

Further down in the press release

"Initial dates for the new adult and junior Performance Competitions Calendar, which will incorporate ITF World Tennis Tour events, domestic events, junior international and national events for 2022 will be released shortly. Details of the grass court Trophy Series will also be released soon."

Madadman · Top national player

paulisi wrote:
The grass tournaments have been announced today. Just looks like same as last year. Nottingham, Birmingham, Queens, Eastbourne.

Still no 100k challengers

Interesting, 1 Challenger at Nottingham. Might just be that these are events linked to ATP/WTA tour level tournaments. Maybe other challengers will be added later/its 100/125. However in the main not sure if all the 100k challengers are that beneficial to the GB players. Only players in are mostly on WC.

Link to the release
https://www.lta.org.uk/about-us/tennis-news/news-and-opinion/general-news/2021/november/dates-announced-for-2022-summer-of-tennis/

paulisi · Tennis legend

No sign of any 15ks in GB yet.
Just the 3 25ks (Bath, Loughborough and Glasgow)on the ITF calendar plus rumours of Shrewbury which is not visible yet.

Can we have an event at the Wirral please?

wolf · Tennis legend

Only 32 qualifying draws for M25s seems a bit rubbish.

Bagel · Lower Club Player

Madadman wrote:
JonH comes home wrote:
brittak wrote:
Only first quarter calendar so far but its a start

www.itftennis.com/media/7144/mens-calendar-2022.pdf

www.itftennis.com/media/7143/womens-calendar-2022.pdf

Cant find any further detail at the moment but there are 4 25Ks each for men and women in GB starting Jan 10 and then into Feb (not all consecutive weeks though).

This link is the ITF media announcement.

www.itftennis.com/en/news-and-media/articles/itf-world-tennis-tour-set-to-offer-over-1000-events-in-2022/

Thanks Brittak - yes, seems strange they are in weeks 2,4 and then 6 and 7. Having back to back weeks tended to be the norm or may even have been a requirement in the past, partly to create little blocks to presumably save money for travelling etc.
Good to see they are at 25k level as well - presumably nothing to indicate locations yet?
Maybe to try and dissuade overseas players from playing, allowing more opportunities for British players if the rules allow it probably for the best. A UK Pro League Tournament between ITFs would be perfect. However would need to be 6 days to allow for qualifying on the Sunday, or a Sunday to Saturday.

Apparently this is exactly what is planned.

PaulM · Tennis legend

Delighted Glasgow is back!

Madadman · Top national player

www.lta.org.uk/globalassets/play/player-pathway/competitions-calendar/performance-competitions-calendar-pro-players.pdf

Further calendar of events showing uk pro tour on as well. Also 5-8 of the ITFs. Also interesting to see the note at the bottom that the trophy events have yet to be announced which is what the challenger level tournaments at Surbiton etc are normally called.

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Madadman wrote:
www.lta.org.uk/globalassets/play/player-pathway/competitions-calendar/performance-competitions-calendar-pro-players.pdf

Further calendar of events showing uk pro tour on as well. Also 5-8 of the ITFs. Also interesting to see the note at the bottom that the trophy events have yet to be announced which is what the challenger level tournaments at Surbiton etc are normally called.

Thats good and really good to see some Coordination of the season domestically. Well done all.

and great if we get to see Ilkley return!

the addict · Tennis legend

Thanks for the link. Nice to see Felixstowe opening the grass court season - must try and get there this year.

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Here is the ATP Tour calendar for first half of season 2022

www.atptour.com/-/media/files/2021-2022-atp-challenger-calendar-25112021.pdf

paulisi · Tennis legend

I see the calendar has been published by the LTA for the first half of the year.

No sign off coming up North.......

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

paulisi wrote:
I see the calendar has been published by the LTA for the first half of the year.

No sign off coming up North.......

Yep madadman posted above. Yea, Shrewsbury is about as far as it goes. Itf Or British tour. A fair few in scotland but a big void in between

Christine · Intermediate Club Player

Nothing in the South West either, but then there never is

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Christine wrote:
Nothing in the South West either, but then there never is

Doesnt Barnstaple get the odd one and I am sure I have seen Exeter and Taunton and Bath have events here and there - I think on the British Tour there are one or two, but ITF definitely missing