Real Tennis Champions Trophy 2024 Live Draw

Live draw of the 2024 Real Tennis Champions Trophy from the Royal Tennis Court at Hampton Court Palace

Presented by Mitsubishi Electric

Full event details available here: https://www.royaltenniscourt.com/tournaments/champions-trophy/2024

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Order of Play:
Tuesday 30th July: Qualifying Day One
Wednesday 31st July: Qualifying Day Two
Thursday 1st August: First Quarter Finals
Friday 2nd August: Second Quarter Finals
Saturday 3rd August: Semi Finals
Sunday 4th August: Final

The draw will proceed as follows:
Allocation of seeds 1 and 2
Drawing of seeds 3 and 4
Drawing of seeds 5 and 6
Drawing of qualifying groups by seed

Seeds:
1. Nick Howell
2. Ben Taylor-Matthews
3. Robert Fahey
4. Steve Virgona
5. Bryn Sayers
6. Leon Smart

Qualifiers:
7. Robert Shenkman
8. Lewis Williams
9. Darren Long
10. Levi Gale
11. Vaughan Hamilton
12. Neil Mackenzie
13. Nino Merola
14. Louis Gordon

welcome to the Champions Trophy live draw apologies for the the lateness technical difficulties and everything but the fabulous Ben gateon beers arrived in the lck of time to help us out thank you Ben he’s also here to witness the draw um and and so we will crack on and uh decide who’s playing who in this year’s Champions Trophy first of all I like just to thank our main sponsor of uh Mitsubishi Electric again a fantastic contribution and support of this tournament and and real tening in general thank you very much so we’re going to work in Reverse so there are 14 entries and con congratulations to all those who made it in to the 14 entries um we have two groups uh of qualifiers um four in each group and we will draw players to start with players 13 and 14 the first name I call of these two will go into the uh well group a and the second we’re going to Group B so we have names 13 and 14 13 is Nino marola and 14 is leis Gordon in pot take around and you want to pop your hand in thank you very much much number 13 13 so 13 Nino marola goes into group a and there leis Gordon goes into group b 14 nothing left and next we have player number 11 BAU Hamilton and 12 Neil McKenzie 11 12 again first name drawn out will go into group a and second into Group B number 11 number 11 B Hamilton goes into group a and therefore 12 Neil Mackenzie goes into Group B so Hamilton will play with in the group with morolla and McKenzie in the group with yeah moving on to uh the players nine and 10 player nine Darren long and player 10 Levi go first name out the pot goes into group a number nine Darren long group a and therefore into Group B player number 10 Levi game so long to play with Hamilton and roller and Gail to play with McKenzie and Gordon correct plays seven and eight the last two spots in the qualifying stage we have seven Rob shankman and eight Lewis Williams first out of the pot goes into group a number eight leis Williams goes into group a group a meaning that Rob shankman seven goes into Group B so Williams to play with long Hamilton and morolla and Shan to play with Gale McKenzie and Gordon thanks now to the main draw uh the first and second seeds are placed and the first seed in this year’s Champions Trophy is Nick how so Nick how slots in at the top of the draw and the number two seed is Ben Taylor Matthews so T Matthews gets placed at the bottom of the draw now we have seeds three and four um are drawn and they will play either the first or second seeds so put so big one we start going from bottom upward sorry um seeds five and six who will be facing the qualifiers um so we have player number five uh seed number five is Brin sers and seed number six is Leon smart this this is to play play the loser of the match involving nickal in the second round these two players will play the winners of the qualifying yes but the winner of that match will play the loser of match involving the correct yeah [Music] okay uh and playing in that match is number five number five is Brin seers