The Tournament
The Format of the event:
- Men and Women competitions
- 32 Players in singles
- 16 pairings in doubles
- Every Player involved in both Singles and Doubles
- One Set Shootouts
- 3 days of competition
- Fan Led Innovations
- Random Draws with no seedings
- Double Pairings chosen in a fan draw
Aim is create a wonderful atmopshere around the arena while watching tennis of the highest quality. The Tournament is likely to be run in the months of September to November in 2013.
Innovations
The event is centered on creating fan interaction wherever possible to bulid as much fun for the fans from the event. One of ways to encourage this is by taking fan suggestions and implementing them in tournament to have more innovate elements in the tennis matches. For example draws made at random similar to the F.A Cup football tournament. What other innovations would you like to see, could be around the following areas :
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated and taken on board when finalising the structure of matches and can provided on the following form
- Changeovers
- Tine allowed in between points
- Service rules - lets and only one serve
- Scoring System Alterations
- Use of Hawkeye
- Microphones on Players ( like in Video Below)
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated and taken on board when finalising the structure of matches and can provided on the following form