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The event in Stirling are the Scottish National Open Championships and a Tennis Scotland Tour event with the higher prize money on offer for TS Tour events as discussed for a previous event.

Top seeds in the men are Ewen Lumsden, Ewan Moore, Nicolas Rosenzweig and Liam Hignett. Hamish Stewart was a late withdrawal.

SF:
Ewen Lumsden [1] v Jordan Reed-Thomas [6]
Nicolas Rosenzweig [4] v Ewan Moore [3]

In the women's, top seeds are Teodora Prisadnikova (who goes by Teddy), Hannah Rylatt, Heather Barlow and Aimee Knowles.

SF:
Teddy Prisadnikova (2008) [1] v Aimee Knowles (2007) [4]
Elizabeth Evans (2007) [5] v Hannah Rylatt (2006) [2]

I was struck that Teddy and Aimee meet by what seems like the countless time, so I looked up their H2H. It's the 4th British Tour match between them this year with Teddy winning 2 of the previous 3 and Aimee 1. With both being from the same area they have met a lot over their young years with Teddy leading the singles H2H 18-2 in LTA ranking events.

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Its funny how they badge this event the Scottish National Open and yet the recent Glasgow ITF was badged the Scottish Open? which seem to be depicting the same thing to me!?  

Well done to this week's winners Summer Yardley, Marcus Walters, Ewen Lumsden and Hannah Rylatt

Loughborough (G2)
SF
Summer Yardley [1] d. Ciara Moore (2007) [4] w/o
Tegan Bush (2008) d. Angel Halton 6-0 6-2

F: Summer Yardley [1] d. Tegan Bush (2008) 6-4 1-0 Ret.

SF
Robert Leck [4] d. Jack Curtis (2005) 6-4 6-4
Marcus Walters [2] d. Jamie Crowfoot 6-4 7-6

F: Marcus Walters [2] d. Robert Leck [4] 6-3 6-3

Stirling (G2)
SF
Ewen Lumsden [1] d. Jordan Reed-Thomas [6] 6-1 6-1
Ewan Moore [3] d. Nicolas Rosenzweig [4] 6-3 6-3

F: Ewen Lumsden [1] d.Ewan Moore [3] 6-3 7-6


SF:
Teddy Prisadnikova (2008) [1] d. Aimee Knowles (2007) [4] 6-3 6-0
Hannah Rylatt (2006) [2] d. Elizabeth Evans (2007) [5] 6-0 6-1

F: Hannah Rylatt (2006) [2] d. Teddy Prisadnikova (2008) [1] 7-6 7-6

The final British Tour event before the invites for the Masters are decided is a Grade 1 event in Edgbaston in a couple of weeks.
The event in Stirling was the last of the Tennis Scotland Open Tour events to qualify for the TS Open Tour Finals which will feature the top 16 on the TS Open Leaderboard when it's updated later this week.

The TS Open Tour National Doubles draws are out and the event starts today.

On the womens side, it is a straight knockout with 22 pair entered into it. Names include Emma Wilson, Hannahs Read and Rylatt, Fran Simpson

competitions.lta.org.uk/sport/tournament/draw

The mens side is a larger field. There are 4 qualifying groups of 4, and 2 of 3 who play little leagues, and then a knockout event. 12 pairs get through qualies, to join 16 who are in the main draw to form a 28 pair main draw field. So the mens field is 38 pairs in total.

competitions.lta.org.uk/sport/tournament/draw

Names on the mens side include Liam Hignett and David Quayle, James MacKinlay, Henry Jefferson and Charlie Robertson, Ewen Lumsden and Hamish Stewart, and Ewen Moore and Finlay Matters

Not sure how seedings got determined as the seeds arent familiar names to me , but it looks an interesting event

Unless I missed his name, Colin Fleming doesnt seem to be playing

-- Edited by JonH comes home on Thursday 9th of November 2023 08:59:29 AM

The semis at the TS Open National Doubles are set:

09:30
Mens Doubles
Semi final
Alan Macdonald [1]
James Mackinlay
V
Liam Hignett [4]
David Quayle

Mens Doubles
Semi final
Ewen Lumsden [3]
Hamish Stewart
V
Ben Davies
Matthew Earnshaw

11:00
Womens Doubles
Semi final
Alexandra Walker [1]
Emma Wilson
V
Heather Barlow [3]
Mhairi Beattie

Womens Doubles
Semi final
Sarah Mcfadyen [4]
Zoe Moffat
V
Hannah Read [8]
Hannah Rylatt

Does the final British Tour event in Edgbaston carry 3000 points for the winner?

Looking at the entry list, it looks like just Marcus Walters from the top of the leaderboard men is entered

competitions.lta.org.uk/ranking/ranking.aspx

If he wins the title and gets 3000 points, he can just pip Phoenix Weir to top spot in the table?

In the women's, I think Ciara Moore is definitely going to top the final table, Kate Mansfield isnt entered here?

Or have I got that wrong?

Edgbaston, Grade 1

In the men's draw both top seeds have made it through to the SF. Marcus survived a scare in R2, winning on a MTB against Roy Keegan. Marcus is the only non-teen to make it through to the SF in either the mens or womens draws.

Marcus Walters [1] v Henry Jefferson
Ferran Redza (2007) v Freddy Blaydes [2]

In the women's draw sadly Liana Sharratt Blanksby retired after just 1 game in the QF to put Hannah Rylatt through to the SF.

Hannah Rylatt [2] v Isabella Walker (2008) [6]
Alice Wilson-Marsh (2008) v Isabelle Britton (2008)