2023 British tournaments

paulisi · Tennis legend

2023 British tournaments

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

paulisi wrote:
Anyone know why the LTA don't use Bolton any more for pro tour events?
Decent venue, plenty of courts, cafe on site and hotels nearby.

they are usin g itfor the two ITF Wheelchair tour events later this month, 2 consecutive weeks, no idea why not re ITF World Tour though...

Lambda · Challenger level

The summer ITF schedule is similar to last year

9 July
Men 25K Nottingham (Grass)

16 July
Men 25K AELTC Wimbledon qualifying and Community Sports Centre Roehampton (Grass)
Women 25K NTC

30 July
Men 25K NTC
Women 25K Foxhills

6 August
Men & Women 25K NTC

13 August
Women 25K Aldershot

Madadman · Masters Series Champion

Didn't want to create a new thread for this and thought this was the best place for this.
When looking at the Bath drawhseet I clicked through to Patrick Brady's ITF profile noticing he has managed to make the top 1000 by not having to play outside of the UK.

This got me thinking what the number of ranking players looks like compared to how many home tournaments we put on. Anyway I thought I'd add the stats.
I've just looked at ITF tournaments(15/25k) for ATP rankings, so doesn't include challenger and ATP tour. The rankings are year end rankings.

Year	Tournaments	Ranked	Top 1000	Top 500
Current	-	76	33	17
2022	16	75	32	17
2021	0*	69	22	13
2020	3(8)**	64	26	14
2019	7	61	26	14
2018***	6	17	17	13
2017	6	54	26	12
2016	6	57	26	11
2015	10	67	28	15
2014	19	77	30	13
2013	23	76	37	17
2012	18	60	35	12
2011	17	52	30	14
2010	17	53	23	12
2009	16	52	28	11

* No UK tournaments due to covid
** 3 tournaments played before covid another 5 were shown as cancelled
*** ATP stopped giving out points below Challenger

Does obviously appear to make a difference and these days with the ITF points that can be gained in qualifying this will also help our players get into overseas ITF qualifying.
On top of these we now have the UK Pro League, which this season will give another 11 weeks of money tournaments. So 27 weeks in the year for players to either being able to play for ranking points on in meaningful prize money tournaments.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Interesting, Madadman....

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Did we really have just 17 ranked men in 2018?! Wow.

Interesting analysis and the Italians have proven the benefit of this. Do we also need to grow our challenger events as more players hit the top 500.

Madadman · Masters Series Champion

JonH comes home wrote:
Did we really have just 17 ranked men in 2018?! Wow.

It really confused me for a while, I thought the rankings were not loading properly until i remembered about the changes in ATP points being given out. Was a terrible system of needing to almost earn promotion to the next level.

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

I wonder if that peak point in 2013 and 14 was also in some way linked to Andy winning the Olympics in 2012 and Wimbledon later in 2013?

Strongbow · All-time great

Madadman wrote:
Didn't want to create a new thread for this and thought this was the best place for this.
When looking at the Bath drawhseet I clicked through to Patrick Brady's ITF profile noticing he has managed to make the top 1000 by not having to play outside of the UK.
This got me thinking what the number of ranking players looks like compared to how many home tournaments we put on. Anyway I thought I'd add the stats.
I've just looked at ITF tournaments(15/25k) for ATP rankings, so doesn't include challenger and ATP tour. The rankings are year end rankings.

Year Tournaments Ranked Top 1000 Top 500
Current - 76 33 17
2022 16 75 32 17
2021 0* 69 22 13
2020 3(8)** 64
26
14
2019 7 61 26 14
2018*** 6 17 17 13
2017 6 54 26 12
2016 6 57 26 11
2015 10 67 28 15
2014 19 77 30 13
2013 23 76 37 17
2012 18 60 35 12
2011 17 52 30 14
2010 17 53 23 12
2009 16 52 28 11
* No UK tournaments due to covid
** 3 tournaments played before covid another 5 were shown as cancelled
*** ATP stopped giving out points below Challenger

Does obviously appear to make a difference and these days with the ITF points that can be gained in qualifying this will also help our players get into overseas ITF qualifying.
On top of these we now have the UK Pro League, which this season will give another 11 weeks of money tournaments. So 27 weeks in the year for players to either being able to play for ranking points on in meaningful prize money tournaments.

Excellent topic. Also worth remembering that a lot of the older tournaments were at 10K/15K level that the LTA doesn't do anymore.

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

paulisi wrote:
Anyone know why the LTA don't use Bolton any more for pro tour events?
Decent venue, plenty of courts, cafe on site and hotels nearby.

Fyi Bolton is being used starting today and also next week for two ITF Wheelchair Tour events.

https://www.itftennis.com/en/tournament/bolton-indoor-itf3-wheelchair-tennis-tournament/gbr/2023/wc-itf3s-gbr-01a-2023/

this week is a series 3 event, next week a level higher at 2. This weeks top seeds are all around the edge of the top 10 and a quite international field; next week should be slightly stronger .

-- Edited by JonH comes home on Friday 17th of February 2023 07:41:07 AM

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Tickets are now on sale for the various Grass Court Challengers eg Ilkley etc!

www.lta.org.uk/fan-zone/international/ilkley-trophy/tickets/

seagull · Hall of fame

I will be at Eastbourne for qualifying and again in the week.

Managed to get Wimbledon as well so all good.

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Good stuff - managed to get Ilkley finals day tickets. Would be great if a Brit can reach one of the finals!

Shhh · Challenger level

Tickets for Surbiton are coming up as sold out(?) I find that hard to believe, is it more likely they are not actually on sale yet, does anybody know from previous years?

(Highly recommended if anyone was thinking of attending that has not been before)

Rich2310 · County player

I have managed to get Wimbledon Court one middle Saturday.