The Coral Beach & Tennis Club will host the new Bermuda Lawn Tennis Association Open Singles Challenge, an elite local tournament that gets underway next week.

The tournament is open to the public and is sanctioned by the BLTA.

It will also serves as mandatory qualification to Bermuda’s team for the Davis Cup and Fed Cup squads.

All of Bermuda’s locally based national players are expected to participate.

The tournament starts on Wednesday, April 8 and runs until Saturday, April 11. On April 8, 9 and 10, matches will take place between 5.30pm and 9.30pm. The finals will be held on Saturday, April 11, with the women’s singles final starting at 1pm and the men’s finals at 3pm.

Nik Bhola, the general manager of Coral Beach & Tennis Club, said: “Coral Beach & Tennis Club is delighted to be hosting this exciting new tennis tournament. The event will see Bermuda’s top young players competing for the trophy and for national selection.

“It should make for very exciting competition. I welcome our club’s members and the members of the public to come out and support this event.”