At the top are Grade A (Super series) tournaments, which include the four Grand Slams, followed by Grades 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5, where Grade 5 is the lowest grade.Īn ITF Junior World ranking will almost certainly be necessary to be accepted into a Grade A, 1, 2 3 tournaments. There are six levels of tournaments on the ITF Junior Circuit.
This year is no different and we are thrilled to have more Grand Slam champions and Paralympic medallists than ever before and delighted to be able to live stream from one of our courts for the first time.Players between the ages of 13 and 18 can enter ITF tournaments. Tournament Director Kirsty Thomson, said: “Since our inaugural Bolton Indoor ITF 2 in 2014 the tournament has consistently attracted some of the very best players from across the world, as it’s the highest status tournament in Europe open to men’s, women’s and quad division players in the early season. Slade has already reached won final in Bolton this year after finishing runner up in yesterday’s ITF 3 quad doubles title decider. Lapthorne will bid to add to the quad singles ITF 2 titles he won in Bolton in 20, while the 15-time Grand Slam champion also partnered fellow Brit Greg Slade to win last year’s ITF 2 quad doubles title at Bolton Arena. She will hope for similar success today when she begins her ITF 2 tournament challenge against Japan’s Chiyo Sasaki. The two-time Paralympian and World and European medallist in wheelchair basketball began her competitive wheelchair tennis career at last year’s Bolton Indoor ITF 3, winning her opening match. Local interest comes from Manchester-based Robyn Love. Shuker and Mathewson are now the top two seeds for the ITF 2 event, which finishes on Sunday.
With British women’s No.1 Shuker only playing this week’s ITF 2 tournament, the world No.10 will hope to retain one of the two Bolton Indoor singles titles she won 12 months ago, with the ITF 3 title having already gone to reigning Wimbledon women’s doubles champion Mathewson. British hopes also include Ben Bartram and Dahnon Ward, winners of the boys’ singles and doubles titles between them at the inaugural US Open Junior Wheelchair Tennis Championships in New York last September. Rio Paralympic champion Reid is joined in this year’s men’s singles field by Dutchmen Maikel Scheffers and Tom Egberink, the winners of seven Grand Slam titles between them, as well as Spaniard Martin de la Puente.
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