the addict wrote:

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I've just looked through the women's GB W25 for 2019 onwards, and all the qualifying were 32 player draws except for one in Glasgow (there were two that week) which was a 24 player draw. The ITF rulebook doesn't actually allow a draw smaller then 24.

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 So just the 2 qualifying rounds. Sorry, as edited in my previous post ( and probably guessed ), I did mean two rounds 32 player draws rather than the 16 I wrote, one of the big issues being every QR1 match then contains a seed 

dodrade wrote:

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Lambda wrote:

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The LTA have quietly published the document detailing feed up WCs in a place I wasn't looking for it.
https://www.lta.org.uk/globalassets/play/player-pathway/competitions-calendar/2022-wildcard-feed-ups.pdf

For women, main draw wild cards are offered to the winner of the UK Pro league, including week 9 and finals week this year, British Tour masters and British Tour Premier events. The runner-up of UK Pro league finals week also earns a main draw wild card. Qualifying wild cards are offered to the winner of the main progress tour events and runners up of UK Pro league.

For men it is similar but there are some differences, for example, additional qualifying wild cards for the runners up of British Tour Masters and this weeks Premier and next weeks Progress Tour winner gets a main draw Wild card. There appear to be no feed up wild cards from week 9 and finals week of this years Pro league for the men.

The winners of the 16U and 18U Nationals get numerous wild cards.

Other info we can get from this, and in particular for JonH, it seems to confirm Ilkley is planned this year (the 18U Nationals girls winner and runner-up get WCs there).

There appears to be five 25Ks planned for July and August.

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 Will the Wild Cards on offer mean stronger line ups in the UK Pro League?

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 Just wondering if anyone had seen any sort of official calendar for ITF's in GB beyond this Jan/Feb spell?

The attachment Lambda provided above shows 4 mens and womens M/W25's planned for April / May and then mentions 5 W25's (nothing mentioned re mens) for July/August  

Is there any more meet on the bones of that, eg any idea of locations etc for the April / May ones?

Ace Ventura wrote:

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Great news about Ilkley. I was down in 2018, and I also had tickets, travel, and accommodation booked in 2020...lovely town, setting, and the 2018 version had a really good field on the women's side - they obviously weren't at the peak of their powers at the time, but it featured the likes of Bencic, Andreescu, Jabeur, Yastremska etc.

Will look to get down again this year.

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 yeah, I cant believe it was 2019 I went last, wow. That was my first visit to the Challenger and it was a good event, well run and professional. I had been to the previous Futures events and they were also good and free to get in each day, so you could just rock up and watch. 

There is often talk about trying for an ATP/WTA Tour event at Ilkley, not sure where that stands now, personally I would like to see it away from Queens week at least in that week before Queens, and at ATP/WTA level there seems to be space to do that (ATP at least, not sure on rules of two tour events in one country for the WTA?) 

Lambda wrote:

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Surbiton (29 May) and Ilkley (12 June) now confirmed on LTA's new look website

https://www.lta.org.uk/fan-zone/event-calendar/?eventtype=International&sort=-#ResultForm

Still to see whether Manchester or somewhere else fills the week between for the women. There is Nottingham for the men in that week.

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 Surbiton and Ilkley seem to be dropped again from the linked site above, not sure what is happening now?!