The Lexus Wrexham Open brings eight days of tournament tennis to the Wrexham Tennis & Padel Centre from 18 to 25 October 2026, with the first match of each day starting at 10am. It is an ITF event with $100,000 in prize money. Tickets run from £4 to £75 and are sold through the tournament's own site, which is also where the breakdown of what each ticket covers sits.
The centre is on Plas Coch Road, LL11 2BW, about ten minutes on foot from the town centre or five in a car. Carden Park is a sponsor rather than a second venue: every match is played at Plas Coch. There is parking on site, as Herald.Wales reported, but it is limited, so the usual hunt around Plas Coch for a space is still a possibility if you turn up late. There is a café and refreshment venue on site. The order of play for each day goes up on the tournament's schedule page.
A £4 ticket is a cheap day out
The bottom of that price range is the interesting part. Four pounds gets you through the gate on the early days, when there is the most tennis happening at once and the least ceremony about it, and an outside court at a tournament like this puts you closer to the players than any seat at the Racecourse puts you to the football.
A 10am start also means you can watch for three or four hours and still have the afternoon in town. The walk back into the centre is flat and short enough that a taxi feels like an indulgence.
The weekend before is a football weekend
Wrexham are at home to Preston North End at 15:00 on 17 October, the day before the tennis begins, which makes that weekend the busy one. Anyone arriving on the Friday for the West Bromwich Albion game on 13 October is well out of the way by then, but a Saturday match followed by a Sunday at the tennis is a tidy two-day trip, and both venues sit at the same end of town.
If you are building a weekend around it, the things to do list and the mural walk fill the gaps between sessions without needing a car.
Where to stay for it
Plas Coch Road is close enough to the centre that the usual town-centre advice holds. The Wrexham town centre accommodation list is the one to start from: Boutique33 has self check-in round the clock, which suits anyone leaving the site after a long evening session, and the City Centre Apartment is the better arithmetic for three or four people sharing a week of it.
If you are driving in each day, the Premier Inn on Jacques Way is opposite Wrexham General and has parking, and the Ramada Plaza off the A483 is the one with eighty-five rooms, so it tends to have space left when a match weekend has taken everything else.
For the quieter version, the countryside places are all a short drive out and none of them are walkable to anything, which is the point of them.