Lexus British Tour
The Lexus British Tour is a tennis circuit for professional players wanting to compete on home soil, young stars with ambitions of going pro in the future, and national level players who still compete at a high level – in other words, the very best of British tennis.
With approximately 30 Lexus British Tour events each year, players climb up and down the leader board depending on their results. Whoever sits top at the end of the year is crowned the Lexus British Tour Bonus Pool Champion.
We also have our Lexus British Tour Masters event – a one off tournament in the calendar with the biggest prizes on offer. Previous champions include none other than US Open title winner, Emma Raducanu.
Find out everything you need to know about the Lexus British Tour.
Enter a Lexus British Tour event
The LTA's Lexus British Tour events often have a range of different players competing – from junior rising stars to national level adults and 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 often be given to a young / junior player who doesn’t yet have an ATP/WTA singles ranking or for example an ATP/WTA ranked doubles player who has no ATP/WTA singles ranking and is normally allocated before or shortly after the withdrawal deadline. However, there are occasions where 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 WTN (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 necessarily linked to any ranking order, with these wild card’s usually but not always allocated by the day of the withdrawal deadline.
Check out the Lexus British Tour calendar for 2025 below:
Both men’s and women’s singles events are run at each tournament.
Tournament formats vary, but include
- 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.
- 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.
- 4-day events, which will operate a one day qualifying, with main draw 3-day main draw.
- Some Premier Tier events are staged as a 16-player round robin format to knock-out.
- 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.
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Main draw |
Qualifying |
Draw size |
Max 32 |
This varies based on number of entries and number of match courts at each event |
Direct Acceptances |
Max 28 (unless no qualifying) |
- |
Qualifiers |
Varies |
- |
Draw sizes will vary according to the number of entries, and number of courts available at each venue.
You can follow all the latest draws, scores and results below:
Watch the action from some of our Lexus British Tour events live over on our YouTube page.
Want to see who’s top of the leaderboards? Find out below:
See below, the winners of the Lexus British Tour 2025 events so far this year.
Category |
Tournament |
Women’s winner |
Men’s winner |
Premier Tier |
Lexus British Tour Premier Loughborough Loughborough University |
Lois Newberry |
Phoenix Weir |
Tier 2 |
Lexus British Tour Loughborough Loughborough University |
Tegan Bush |
Yujiro Onuma |
Leaderboards, prize money, withdrawals and formats
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