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AnnaM · Lower Club Player

RE: Para Tennis 2025 Thread

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Thanks Anna's Dad - so, is this the Para Tennis "tour" done now in essence or are there any more events to come that we should be aware of? Or do Anna and the other Brits now play in main stream events for the rest of the year? I know you mentioned Queen's as an exhibition last year and might take place this season, any news on that?

AnnaM · Lower Club Player

JonH comes home wrote:
Thanks Anna's Dad - so, is this the Para Tennis "tour" done now in essence or are there any more events to come that we should be aware of? Or do Anna and the other Brits now play in main stream events for the rest of the year? I know you mentioned Queen's as an exhibition last year and might take place this season, any news on that?

Queens is now a two-week event, so they are unsure how the grass courts will hold up. They talked about an International event in Nottingham, but nothing happened there. So it is mainstream grades 1, 2 and 3 tennis for the rest of the year.

Anna is spending an exchange semester at San Diego State University starting on August 22nd, 2025. She is looking forward to it. However, due to the ridiculous rules, they have decided that Anna is a professional and cannot even train with the University players there. This is probably because Anna wins a non-expenses covering £850 at the OZ Open. This trip has always had a massive financial impact on us and she certainly is not a professional. How many of the good UK Uni players in the US have won money at the British Tours etc? Including most of the players at San Diego. Pretty much all of the good UK players have won prize money. So I think it is a rule that only applies if they can pretend it never happened.

So Anna will have to somehow find some affordable quality tennis training in San Diego, or she will not be competitive for next year's OZ Open.

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

AnnaM wrote:
JonH comes home wrote:
Thanks Anna's Dad - so, is this the Para Tennis "tour" done now in essence or are there any more events to come that we should be aware of? Or do Anna and the other Brits now play in main stream events for the rest of the year? I know you mentioned Queen's as an exhibition last year and might take place this season, any news on that?
Queens is now a two-week event, so they are unsure how the grass courts will hold up. They talked about an International event in Nottingham, but nothing happened there. So it is mainstream grades 1, 2 and 3 tennis for the rest of the year.
Anna is spending an exchange semester at San Diego State University starting on August 22nd, 2025. She is looking forward to it. However, due to the ridiculous rules, they have decided that Anna is a professional and cannot even train with the University players there. This is probably because Anna wins a non-expenses covering £850 at the OZ Open. This trip has always had a massive financial impact on us and she certainly is not a professional. How many of the good UK Uni players in the US have won money at the British Tours etc? Including most of the players at San Diego. Pretty much all of the good UK players have won prize money. So I think it is a rule that only applies if they can pretend it never happened.
So Anna will have to somehow find some affordable quality tennis training in San Diego, or she will not be competitive for next year's OZ Open.

How ridiculous these amateur rules are. Silly really. Re Anna though, going to San Diego for a few months is a life experience bigger than tennis - so what if the tennis suffers a little for Oz, the experience of being out there will be fabulous!

AnnaM · Lower Club Player

JonH comes home wrote:
AnnaM wrote:
JonH comes home wrote

How ridiculous these amateur rules are. Silly really. Re Anna though, going to San Diego for a few months is a life experience bigger than tennis - so what if the tennis suffers a little for Oz, the experience of being out there will be fabulous!

Yep, it is a developing experience than money cannot buy. So she has to go and she will make the most of it. She has driven the process of going to the US from start to finish. So we are happy for her.

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

AnnaM wrote:
JonH comes home wrote:
AnnaM wrote:
JonH comes home wrote

How ridiculous these amateur rules are. Silly really. Re Anna though, going to San Diego for a few months is a life experience bigger than tennis - so what if the tennis suffers a little for Oz, the experience of being out there will be fabulous!
Yep, it is a developing experience than money cannot buy. So she has to go and she will make the most of it. She has driven the process of going to the US from start to finish. So we are happy for her.

Brilliant , good luck to her!