Students in Bath are being urged to give sport another go after the University of Bath was awarded more than £113,382 in National Lottery funding from Sport England. Along with 40 other projects, The 3: Thirty Club is being backed by Sport England’s £10 million Active Universities fund to get more university students playing sport, as part of the mass participation legacy from the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. The 3: Thirty Club will...
University of Bath student Chris Coles retained his men’s doubles title with partner Matt Nottingham at the England National Under-19 Badminton Championships at Milton Keynes. The pair, who were top seeds, went through the tournament without dropping a game and beat second seeds Harley Towler and Alex Fowler 21-19, 21-16 in a tough final. Coles, a Sports Performance student at the University, went close in two other competitions, losing his men’s singles semi-final to eventual...
Team Bath’s netballers won one and lost one in their double-header weekend in the Fiat Netball Superleague to remain fourth in the table. The reigning Superleague champions ran out 57-48 winners at Surrey Storm on Saturday, making the most of their possession to outscore Storm in each of the four quarters. Team Bath head coach Jess Garland was pleased overall. “The team focused on what they needed to and in the process delivered a better...
Dmitry Tursunov beat Andreas Beck to win the AEGON GB Pro-Series in Bath today 6-4,6-4, despite admitting to a bout of early nerves. “In the first set I was a little nervous and didn’t move too well”, said the Russian former top 20 player who is coming back from injury”. “It was very important for me to play safe and not try and blast the ball everywhere until I could get hold of my nerves”....
Dmitry Tursunov of Russia will face Andreas Beck of Germany in tomorrow’s final of the AEGON ATP Challenger tournament at the University of Bath – an all-time first encounter for the duo. Beck, seeded six and world ranked 135, won his semi-final today in three sets 2-6, 6-4, 6-1 against Jurgen Zopp of Estonia. Tursunov, a former top 20 player who is seeded third and world-ranked 100, beat Britain’s Dan Evans by a comfortable 6-3,6-2...
The first final of Bath’s big week of tennis takes place at the University of Bath Sports Training Villager later today (Friday). The Polish pair of Marta Domachowska and Katarzyna Piter take on Timea Babos of Hungary and Anne Kremer of Luxembourg in the final of the women’s doubles at the AEGON ITF women’s $25,000 tournament. Both pairs are unseeded for the tournament. The final is the scheduled to be the third match on court...
A brand new women’s doubles pairing of Hungary’s Timea Babos and Luxembourg’s Anne Kremer are celebrating winning the first title of the big week of tennis at the University of Bath. The pair today (Friday) won the women’s doubles final at the AEGON ITF $25,000 tournament at the Sports Training Village in their first contest playing as a pair. Their victory was all the more remarkable as it was Babos’ fifth successive women’s doubles title...
Three Team Bath judo players have been named in the British team to compete at next months European Championships in Turkey, while a fourth player will compete at the Visually Impaired World Games, also in Turkey. Jan Gosiewski, Tom Reed and Megan Fletcher are members of Britain’s 19-strong team for the Europeans, which take place in Istanbul from 21-23 April. Britain can have up to two fighters in each weight division at the Europeans, which...
Britain is guaranteed a quarter-final slot in the AEGON ITF women’s $25,000 tournament taking place at the University of Bath’s Sports Training Village this week in parallel with the men’s $42,500 AEGON ATP Challenger tournament. Melanie South’s reward for beating sixth seed Mona Barthel of Germany in the round of 32 yesterday is to face her compatriot Naomi Brady in a last 16 match today. Brady is the UK no.7 whilst South is ranked at...
Wimbledon “marathon man” Nicolas Mahut, of France, takes to the Sports Training Village courts today in the AEGON GB Pro-Series at the University of Bath and hopes for an easier first-round ride than the tense three-set victory experienced by Russia’s Dmitry Tursunov yesterday. Mahut takes on Jan Hernych of the Czech Republic as fourth match on court 1, offering spectators a chance to see the man who set a record for the longest ever match...
