ILKLEY Lawn Tennis & Squash Club's grass courts face their last examination of a long, hot summer next week.

After successfully staging the Fuzion 100 Ilkley Trophy pre-Wimbledon tournament five weeks ago and hosting Group Four of Men's County Week this week, the final hurdles at Stourton Road are the LTA British Tour and the Ilkley Open.

The LTA British Tour is a Tier Two event, running from Monday until next Sunday, while the Ilkley Open, which is more for club-standard players, starts on Saturday.

With memories still fresh of Bradford's Serena Nash winning the women's singles two years ago and the excellent all-Leeds men's singles final last year between Luke Johnson and Clay Crawford, what can we expect of the strata below the Futures Circuit this year?

Well for starters there is Patrick Foley, the British Tour's man for all seasons and all surfaces, who is top of the British Tour leaderboard with 16,565 points.

The 23-year-old Nottinghamshire county player may have only won one title – on clay at Newcastle – but it is his consistency that has put him in pole position in the standings.

He has reached the semi-finals (Graves Sheffield) and quarter-finals (Stirling) indoors, the semi-finals at Bournemouth (clay), the quarter-finals at Penarth and Woking (synthetic clay) and, on grass, the last eight at West Worthing and the last four at Felixstowe.

Foley has played in 16 British Tour events – easily the most of anyone on the leaderboard – and his closest challenger at Ilkley could well be Buckinghamshire's Michael Shaw, who has played in 11 and is fourth on the leaderboard with 12,244 points.

Shaw was a finalist indoors at Loughborough in March and has been a semi-finalist at Sutton, Woking, West Worthing, Felixstowe and Tunbridge Wells, the latter three all on grass.

Others on the leaderboard in the mix include Newcastle runner-up Joseph Newman-Billington and Corby finalist Oliver Okonkwo.

A familiar name in the men's line-up is 2015 winner Adam Barraclough (Durham & Cleveland).

A total of 13 players, including Shaw, Okonkwo, Newman-Billington, Foley and Cookridge's Peter Ashley, are rated 1.1 in the men's draw, while three women are rated 1.2 – Northumberland duo Amy Hoburn and Emma Wilson and Yorkshire's Sofie Woon – and 12 have a 2.1 rating.

The main leaderboard contenders, however, are Staffordshire's Mae McCutcheon and Bedfordshire's Olivia Elliott, who are seventh and eighth in the standings.

Leading Yorkshire hopes in the singles are Woon, Megan Hopton and Isabelle Hearnshaw (women) and Newman-Billington, Paul Johnson, Finn Murgett, Nick Turnbull, Peter Ashley and Matthew Clegg (men).