Lexus British Tour

The LTA's Lexus British Tour events often have a range of different players competing – from junior rising stars to national level adults or even pro players. 

The tournaments are open age group category with a mixture of adults and juniors competing and are LTA Grade 1 (Premier & Tier 1) & LTA Grade 2 (Tier 2) events. 

You can play more than one tournament in the same week provided you have completed the previous tournament.  

If you have played in an ITF tournament, you will need to have been released by the ITF Supervisor of that tournament as you cannot compete in multiple tournaments at the same time. 

Performance Wild Cards

At a Lexus British Tour event two wild cards per draw may be awarded at the discretion of the LTA Performance Team, irrespective of whether that player falls within the acceptance criteria for that draw.

The Performance Team wild card will normally be given to a young / junior player who doesn’t yet have an ATP/WTA singles ranking or an ATP/WTA ranked doubles player who has no ATP/WTA singles ranking, and is normally allocated before or shortly after the withdrawal deadline. In some circumstances the wild card criteria may vary to the above.

Tournament Director Wild Cards

Outside of the above exception, at Lexus British Tour events (Premier Tier, Tier 1, and Tier 2 events) 1-4 wild cards per main draw may be awarded at the discretion of the Tournament Director providing the wild card applicant is within the main draw acceptance cut-off for that tournament. In certain circumstances and if there are spaces in the main draw, this number may be increased at the discretion of the Lexus British Tour Tournament Director.

A wild card may be awarded to a player who has not entered the tournament. A wild card may also be awarded into the relevant Qualifying draw, to a non-entered player of the relevant rating (open ranking), in a situation where all the originally entered players have moved into the event. In both the above instances a Wild Card may be seeded.

For wild card requests (other than the LTA Performance Team wild card mentioned above) please contact the Lexus British Tour Tournament Director, by Friday (midday) before the event for Main Draw, and by the withdrawal deadline for Qualifying. These wild cards will normally be allocated in order of ATP/WTA singles ranking, then ITF World Tennis singles ranking of 1500 or better, followed by ITF World Tennis Number (LTA Open ranking will be used to determine the order of players with the same ITF World Tennis Number).

For any LTA Performance Team wild card, these are discretionary and not necessary linked to any ranking order, with the wild card normally allocated by the day of the withdrawal deadline.

Check out the Lexus British Tour calendar for 2024 below:

Open calendar

Both men’s and women’s singles events are run at each tournament.

Tournament formats vary, but include

1. Weeklong tournaments, typically starting on a Monday, with qualifying draws feeding through to the main draw which usually then commence on the Wednesday and the Finals normally scheduled on the Saturday. Matches are scheduled during the daytime.
2. 3-day events with a Thursday-Saturday, or Friday-Sunday format. These have one men’s and one women’s draw (no qualifying event), each with a typical draw size of 28, playing a match tie-break as the final set. Match schedule – day 1 1st round; day 2 last 16 & quarter-final; day 3 semi-final & final. Refer to tournament information specific for that event.
3. 4-day events, which will operate a one day qualifying, with main draw 3-day main draw.
4. Some Premier Tier events are staged as a 16-player round robin format to knock-out.
5. Some 2-day week-end events are also played as a 16-player round robin format to knock-out.

For any Lexus British Tour Event please check the tournament schedule/ format/ exact days for that event on the website or with the referee as these do vary.

Some of the tournaments are solely an Lexus British Tour competition with Men’s and Women’s Singles. However, some of the tournaments in the summer are part of a larger tournament, which also offer other events (this should be viewable when entering the competition online).

Order of acceptances is based on ATP/WTA singles ranking, then ITF World Tennis singles ranking of 1500 or better, followed by ITF World Tennis Number at the entry deadline. LTA Open ranking will be used to determine the order of players with the same ITF World Tennis Number. ATP Protected/WTA Special Ranking may be used for acceptance provided the player informs the Tournament Director before the closing deadline. It is the player’s responsibility to request and receive confirmation of this request in good time.

Seeding in all draws is based on ATP/WTA singles ranking, then ITF World Tennis singles ranking of 1500 or better, followed by ITF World Tennis Number (and then LTA Open ranking) at the time of making the qualifying draw (7-day rank). Once qualifying draws have been published, only in exceptional circumstances, will any players be moved from a qualifying draw to a main draw.

Draw sizes will vary according to the number of entries, and number of courts available at each venue.

To enter a Lexus British Tour event, just follow these simple steps:  

• Sign up to Advantage to get your ITF World Tennis Number. 
• Search for your next tournament here.  
• Select which event you want to enter.  
• Complete the online entry process.  
• Then you’re all set and ready to go – it’s that easy. 

You can follow all the latest draws, scores and results below:

See draws, scores & results

Watch the action from some of our Lexus British Tour events live over on our YouTube page.

Visit YouTube page

Want to see who’s top of the leaderboards? Find out below:

See leaderboards

See below, the winners of the Lexus British Tour 2024 events so far this year.

Leaderboards, prize money, withdrawals and formats

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