The Progress Tour Wild-card Series - Cardiff

Welcome to The Cardiff Progress Tour Wild-card Series

This event will form part of the new Progress Tour Wild-card Series, a singles event providing the Mens & Womens Winner (Main Draw) and Runner-Up (Qualifying) with Wild-cards for the first swing of $25,000 ITF Pro Series events in the UK 

** See Full Details below **

All Matches are now being submitted towards Universal Tennis Rating & World Tennis Number.

For the third consecutive year, the Tour will begin proceedings in the Welsh capital - a special thanks to our hosts Cardiff Metropolitan University...

Venue - 

Cardiff Metropolitan University, Cyncoed Campus, Cyncoed Road, Cardiff, CF23 6XD http://www.cardiffmet.ac.uk/about/campuses/Pages/Cyncoed-Campus.aspx 

Date - 

Saturday 4th - Tuesday 7th January 2020 - (Main Draw Monday 6th & Tuesday 7th January, enabling players to participate in both Loughborough Tier 1 British Tour & Cardiff Progress Tour)

What to expect - 

• Three plus level-based, and progressive Singles WTN/UTR powered matches 
• Specialist Workshops with Guest Speakers
• $25,000 Mens & Womens Wild-cards ** See Below**
• £3,250 Prize Money
• Player Housing (Limited)

Format - 

Best of three set matches - Qualifying & Main Draw Draw, plus all playback matches will be two full sets, plus championship tie-break deciding set. 

Refereed by an approved Progress Tour representative. 

Qualifying compass draw for lower UTR players on 4th/5th January, feeding into Main Draw for higher UTR players on 6th/7th January 2020.

Surface - 

Indoor Hard

Players - 

Mixed Event *see Female Bonus below*, recommended UTR of 6.0 upwards

Entries - 

2pm on Friday 27th December 2019 OR when entries are full. Please click the 'REGISTER' button and fill in the details, completing payment to confirm your entry. 

Entry & Withdrawal deadline are one and the same. Any withdrawal received after this time, will not receive an entry fee refund.

Entry Fee - £38 Prize Money - 

Winner £1000, Finalist £500, Semi-Finalist £250, Quarter-Finalist £125, In addition, Female Bonus Pot £750. 

(Subject to receiving minimum number of entries - 45 players. Prize Fund subject to revision on entry deadline). 

Female Bonus - 

The 4 highest achieving female players will be placed into a shootout draw, with the winner being crowned the Female Bonus Winner.

** Wild-Cards for this event are linked to the Mens & Womens $25,000 events in Barnstaple, Glasgow & Sunderland in February 2020. 

Mens & Ladies Winners will both receive a $25k Main Draw Wild-Card, and Losing Finalists will both receive Qualifying Wild-cards.

Players are able to state a preference for which of the three events they would like a Wild-card. However, the final allocation of Wild-cards will lie solely with The LTA Performance Team.

If you can enter via the link above, and are a 6.00 UTR or higher, please consider your entry accepted. Once entry deadline has passed, please keep up to date with draws, schedules and player info via this event page.

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