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The Towcester Open (currently known as the Waitrose Towcester Open for sponsorship reasons) is a tennis tournament held annually in September at Towcester Tennis Club in Towcester, Northamptonshire since 1995. The tournament is held on concrete hard courts.

The tournament takes place over one week in early September. Each year five major events are contested.

The tournament is considered to be a the first tournament in the run up to the US Open tournament, which is also held on hard courts, although DecoTurf is used at Flushing Meadows.

Events
There are five main events in the tournament:


 * Gentlemen's Singles (64 draw, established in 1995)
 * Ladies' Singles (64 draw, established in 2003)
 * Gentlemen's Doubles (32 draw, established in 2000)
 * Ladies' Doubles (32 draw, established in 2006)
 * Mixed Doubles (32 draw, established in 2006)

Match formats
Matches in the Gentlemen's Singles and Gentlemen's Doubles competitions are best-of-five sets. Matches in all other events are best-of-three sets. A tiebreak game is played if the score reaches 6–6 in any set.

All events are single-elimination tournaments.

Champions
See List of Towcester Open champions

1995
11 Sep


 * Wild Cards
 * 🇬🇧 Jeremy Bates
 * 🇬🇧 Chris Wilkinson
 * 🇬🇧 Tim Henman
 * 🇬🇧 Mark Petchey

1996
16 Sep


 * Wild Cards
 * 🇷🇺 Andrei Chesnokov
 * 🇧🇬 Orlin Stanoytchev
 * 🇬🇧 Chris Wilkinson
 * 🇬🇧 Danny Sapsford