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Domestic events have been keenly contested, with men’s tournaments being won by seven different players and the women’s having 11 winners.<\/p>\n
Nicolas Rosenzweig, at the age of 38, leads the men’s rankings ahead of 19-year-old Cameron Fryer, but they have both played 15 tournaments while third-placed Stewart has been in only four and the St Andrews-based Frenchman is unable to make the finals.<\/p>\n
Similarly, with St Helens’ Rylatt not defending her title, 20-year-old Heather Barlow leads the women’s rankings but has played 14 tournaments compared to second-placed 17-year-old Mia Wainwright’s four.<\/p>\n
The regular season concluded with this month’s Scottish National Open Championships at the University of Stirling, where world number 316 James MacKinlay beat fellow 24-year-old Ewen Lumsden (622) in the men’s final as 17-year-old world junior 83 Flora Johnson defeated Halle Pringle, five years her senior, in the women’s.<\/p>\n
Semi-final action at the TS Open Tour Finals will get under way on 17 December at 09:30 GMT, with spectators also able to attend both competition days free of charge.<\/p>\n
Lumsden has already teamed up with former world number 44 Jonny O’Mara to take the men’s doubles title, while Stirling-based Hephzibah Oluwadare and fellow leading junior Marelie Raath clinched the women’s trophy.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n