Many tournaments run at local clubs and centres are grade 4 rankings competitions. They are suitable for beginner and intermediate players and generally take place over a period of 1-7 days. Rankings points (or LTA recent form points in the case of 9U and 10U events) are earned according to the number of rounds won in an event and the number of points for winning successive rounds in a grade 4 competition is higher than a grade 5 event. There are also many grade 4 one-day competitions which generally use an abbreviated scoring format ("FAST4") and offer each player a minimum of two matches.

Many multi-day grade 4 competitions include several age categories. Some tournaments also hold doubles events too. The application (and cancellation) deadline for most grade 4 competitions tends to be 7-14 days before the starting date.

Grade 4 competitions also count towards each players World Tennis Number ("WTN").

Click here to visit the Featured Competitions section of our website and look out for tournaments with the Grade 4 logo. For one-day grade 4 events, click here to visit The TennisUK One-Day Event Programme.