Progress Tour 2024

Lambda · Futures level

Progress Tour 2024

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Good to have a separate thread for it, Lambda

And good to see the names of some of those players on the list

the addict · Tennis legend

Sophia Hurrion is Millen's sister and is at Marshall University.

Strongbow · All-time great

I've never heard of Liana Sharrat-Blanksby - OK found her now smile

paulisi · Tennis legend

Strongbow wrote:
I've never heard of Liana Sharrat-Blanksby - OK found her now

16 - missed a lot of tennis due to injury. Highly touted junior despite injuries

Lambda · Futures level

Both men and women draws have gone with seedings with the top 4 in each making the last 4.

The men's SFs are tomorrow, while in the women's SFs today Stresnakova defeated Liana 4 & 2 and Freya defeated Sophia 2 & 0.

Lambda · Futures level

Congratulations to the top seeds Ewen Lumsden and Katie Stresnakova who take home £2,000. Ewen also gets a main draw WC to the M25 in Loughborough or Sunderland.

Finals, Cardiff 10k
Ewen Lumsden [1] defeated David Quayle [3] 4 & 4
Katie Stresnakova [1] defeated Freya Christie [2] 4 & 4

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Thanks for these updates, Lambda.

Does the Progress Tour have any sort of league table or ranking a la British and UKPL tours, or are the events standalone tournaments?

Lambda · Futures level

As far as I'm aware they are standalone events. I think the purpose is to provide more opportunities to play and earn money rather than anything else. Match results do feed in to their UTR and WTN ratings.

I know many dismiss the WTN, but it can be quite useful. I didn't comment at the time, but I remember last year CD waxing lyrical about Hollie Smart beating someone ranked several hundred places higher than her in the junior rankings, but their WTNs at the time suggested Hollie was the better player and should have won.

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Lambda wrote:
As far as I'm aware they are standalone events. I think the purpose is to provide more opportunities to play and earn money rather than anything else. Match results do feed in to their UTR and WTN ratings.

I know many dismiss the WTN, but it can be quite useful. I didn't comment at the time, but I remember last year CD waxing lyrical about Hollie Smart beating someone ranked several hundred places higher than her in the junior rankings, but their WTNs at the time suggested Hollie was the better player and should have won.

I have nothing against WTNs. They are supposedly right, predictevly, about 70% of the time. Which is very much in line with the UTR (I've seen some figures for the UTR being 74%) And they do keep tweaking the algorithm to try and make it better. I think they changed it twice last year. Needless to say, some people complained, some liked it. But presumably those figures should continue to improvs. And it's not supposed to be a science, it's just another tool.

I was waxing lyrical about Hollie because Hollie (born 2009) was rising so fast through the ranks, had a nice result, and everyone needs a cheerleader

Lambda · Futures level

In amongst all the British events in Glasgow, Roehampton and the juniors in Liverpool this week, there is also a Mens 25k UTR event at Cardiff Met by The Progress Tour. As usual with UTR events, it is very difficult to get any info on this event. However, the group stage is complete

Group A was won by Ewen Lumsden with 4 wins and Sean Hodkin finished group runner-up with 3 wins and 1 loss
Group B was won by Josh Goodger (4-0) with runner-up Luca Bluett (2-2)
Group C was won by Marcus Walters (4-0) with Ed Pudney runner-up (3-1)
Group D was won by Phoenix Weir (4-0) with Edison Ambarzumjan runner-up (3-1)

Everyone now progresses to their respective knock out stage to decide final placings.