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LTA Tournament Bonus Scheme


The success of our players have led to some changes to the LTA Tournament Bonus Scheme for 2023 to make it, say the LTA, more targeted and sustainable. These changes include age restrictions introduced and reductions to the bonus awards. As I read it, some bonuses have sizeable reductions: an eligible UK man winning a UK 25k will be eligible for a bonus of £750 in 2023 compared with £3000 in 2022.

For 2023:
The total funding available is £100k
Players are limited to a maximum annual award of £10k
15k bonus scheme is only available to 21&U (previously no age restriction but 23 & over was limited to an annual bonus of £2k)
25k R16 bonus is only available to 23&U
Graduating university/college players are exempt from the age restrictions for 1 year
Players not eligible for the remainder of the year if they receive a main draw wild card to Wimbledon
Players on the PSP (or year after), MWP, or on the National Academy programme are not eligible (as last year)
In weeks where a LTA ITF 15/25 are held the TBS is only available for the UK tournament (as last year)
Awards for UK tournaments will be reduced by 50% to reflect reduced travelling costs

15k bonus awards remain the same at £150 QF, £250, £450, £800 winner
25k (men) bonuses are reduced by at least half: £100 R16, £250, £450, £800, £1500 winner
25K (women) bonuses are reduced by up to 25% except for R16 which has increased: £250 R16, £450, £800, £1500, £2500 winner
Challenger/ITF 60k+ are reduced by up to 1/3rd except R16 which is unchanged: £400 R16, £800, £1000, £2000, £3000 winner
Doubles Challenger/ITF 60k+ no longer award the £100 to SF with it being reallocated to fund an increase to the finalists: £400 RU, £800 winner

Not clear how the new W40 fits in.

Full details: https://www.lta.org.uk/4aef49/siteassets/compete/performance/file/tournament-bonus-scheme-2023.pdf
For comparison, this is the 2022 scheme: https://www4.lta.org.uk/globalassets/play/player-pathway/competitions-calendar/2022-tournament-bonus-scheme.pdf

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Thats a shame hmm. Allegedly there are male Brit players in the top 500 who just about broke even this year thanks to the Tournament Bonus scheme. 2023 will be tough for some, especially those without wealthy parents.

 



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This surely must be linked to the atp and wta fines on the lta for their banning of Russian players from British events?

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JonH comes home wrote:

This surely must be linked to the atp and wta fines on the lta for their banning of Russian players from British events?


No, I think it's more connected to the large number of tournaments that they're now putting on in the UK.

The argument for the scheme previously was to help the players who had to travel a lot and use other countries' hospitality, effectively. 

Now that covid has passed (sort of), and that the UK has a generous domestic schedule, there's obviously less need, as such, for the top-up.  



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Coup Droit wrote:
JonH comes home wrote:

This surely must be linked to the atp and wta fines on the lta for their banning of Russian players from British events?


No, I think it's more connected to the large number of tournaments that they're now putting on in the UK.

The argument for the scheme previously was to help the players who had to travel a lot and use other countries' hospitality, effectively. 

Now that covid has passed (sort of), and that the UK has a generous domestic schedule, there's obviously less need, as such, for the top-up.  


 Ok, that makes sense. 



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JonH comes home wrote:

This surely must be linked to the atp and wta fines on the lta for their banning of Russian players from British events?


 You are absolutely right regardless of what anybody else says.  The scrapping of Wimbledon in 2020 becauase of the cold, after Convid restrictions were lifted (incidently the only Grand Slam event to buckle and not go ahead) cost the LTA a multi million £ fortune.  Then they were fined heavily for the appalling decision to ban players who were born in countries the LTA board does not like, hence this funding cut.
I said on here in July that this would cost our players, not only did the likes of Peniston and Gray miss out on vital ranking points that would have seen them seeded higher at events they entered, and in Gray's case would have made him eligable for more challengers, and now we have this!  
I know there are more futures events now, but the LTA need to get back to basics, stop discriminating against players for events that have nothing to do with them, (no other Grand Slam banned them so remember that), stop playing politics, and get on with the tennis.  



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Mark1968 wrote:
JonH comes home wrote:

This surely must be linked to the atp and wta fines on the lta for their banning of Russian players from British events?


 You are absolutely right regardless of what anybody else says.  The scrapping of Wimbledon in 2020 becauase of the cold, after Convid restrictions were lifted (incidently the only Grand Slam event to buckle and not go ahead) cost the LTA a multi million £ fortune.  Then they were fined heavily for the appalling decision to ban players who were born in countries the LTA board does not like, hence this funding cut.
I said on here in July that this would cost our players, not only did the likes of Peniston and Gray miss out on vital ranking points that would have seen them seeded higher at events they entered, and in Gray's case would have made him eligable for more challengers, and now we have this!  
I know there are more futures events now, but the LTA need to get back to basics, stop discriminating against players for events that have nothing to do with them, (no other Grand Slam banned them so remember that), stop playing politics, and get on with the tennis.  


 By 'cold', do you mean Covid? In which case I might stop reading there

However, carrying on, I think the claim that the cancelled event in 2020 cost the LTA a 'multi-million £ fortune' is misleading and suggests you might need to look at the annual report more closely. 

From the annual report figures, the LTA has a surplus from the Championships in 2020 of £36 million, approx. And in 2021 a surplus of £39 approx.  

I don't consider £3m to be a multi-million fortune (and that's always assuming that the event would have made £39m in 2020 if staged)

Indeed, the inusrance is still paying out - the report says: "

The increase in the distributable surplus in 2021 was partly due to the receipt of the LTAs share (£6m) of the final insurance payout"

So, if you added that £6m back to 2020, where it belongs, so to speak, then the LTA actually made a big profit in 2020 from Wimbledon 

So the cancellation MADE them money, it did not COST them money (thanks to savvy insurance) 

https://www.lta.org.uk/49bc70/siteassets/about-lta/file/lta-finance-and-governance-report-2021.pdf



-- Edited by Coup Droit on Wednesday 28th of December 2022 11:39:42 AM

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Thanks for putting down some figures to this, CD.

With the extent of the pandemic and the insurance Wimbledon had in place, to my mind it always made perfect sense for them to cancel the 2020 event and take the insurance payout.

Clearly any event they had tried to put on would have been very much restricted, giving them much less revenue than normal, so it is logical that they would end up net much better off cancelling as compared to holding such a restricted event at the scheduled time ( when the whole tennis tour had shut down ) or perhaps a month or two later.

As I have said before, I did think the unilateral banning of Russians and Belarusians was appallingly handled and has come home to reap in the fines on that score. But clearly overall the sensible covid cancellation and insurance payout has hugely helped mitigate that and leave overall finances evidently not that bad at all. Point made, assuming they continue to get no back up from other countries and federations, let's hope the LTA and Wimbledon ( and their government masters? ) show further sense by now allowing individual Russian and Belarusian players into UK events.



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