The University of Bath is this week hosting ITF World Tennis Tour (WTT) M25 and W25 tournaments, the fourth event on the LTA’s 2023 Performance Competitions Calendar for professional players. The international tournaments provide significantly-enhanced opportunities for British players at each age and stage of the performance player pathway - all on home soil. The Bath event - hosted on the indoor courts at the Team Bath Sports Training Village - is featuring 19 British...
Team Bath Tennis ace Alicia Barnett and partner Olivia Nicholls put in a battling performance on their Australian Open debuts before being edged out in the first round by Czechia’s Markéta Vondroušová and Miriam Kolodziejová. In an absorbing women's doubles contest that lasted more than two hours on Court 17, the Brits – in only their third Grand Slam – took the first set 6-3 and bounced back from an early break in the second...
Team Bath Tennis player Alicia Barnett will appear at her third Grand Slam in six months when she makes her Australian Open debut this week. The British number one women’s doubles player, coached by Ian MacDonald at the University of Bath, and partner Olivia Nicholls will take on Czechia’s Markéta Vondroušová and Miriam Kolodziejová in the first round, with the match scheduled for Thursday (19th). Vondroušová made headlines in 2019 when she reached the French...
World, European and Commonwealth champions were crowned, more than 100 international medals were won and new elite training centres were opened during another unforgettable year of sport at the University of Bath. The Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games saw 37 sportspeople who train, study or studied at the University of Bath – named as the University of the Year in The Times and The Sunday Times Good University Guide 2023 – compete across nine different sports...
Ben Jones, Giles Hussey and Holly Hutchinson continued a proud tradition of Team Bath Tennis players helping Great Britain enjoy medal success at the world’s biggest student tennis team tournament. The trio were part of a six-strong GB squad that finished runners-up to the United States at the Master’U BNP Paribas tournament in Honfleur, France – the first time it had been contested since University of Bath graduate Jones helped Britain also win silver at...
Team Bath Tennis ace Alicia Barnett says helping Great Britain reach their first Billie Jean King Cup semi-final in more than 40 years was an “incredible experience”. Barnett, coached by Ian MacDonald at the University of Bath, and doubles partner Olivia Nicholls were instrumental as GB progressed through the group stages, winning both of their matches in straight sets to the delight of 4,000-strong crowds at Glasgow's Emirates Arena. The GB debutants then went mighty...
Alicia Barnett’s "incredible" 2022 has continued after the Team Bath Tennis ace was today added to the Great Britain team for the Billie Jean King Cup Finals, taking place at Glasgow Emirates Arena from 8-13 November. It will be a first appearance in the world’s largest annual women's international team sports competition – formerly known as the Fed Cup – for Barnett, who has risen to become the British number one women’s doubles player after...
Talented young tennis players from 21 countries around the world are in action at the University of Bath this week as Team Bath hosts the Tennis Europe Junior International Bath for a second successive year. The 87 players competing in the U12s tournament, running until Saturday 5th November, come from as far afield as Ecuador, South Africa, Uzbekistan, Japan, the United States and Ukraine. There are also three Team Bath Tennis players in the main...
Young people under the care of Bristol Children’s Hospital got to try out a wide range of sports including skeleton, rowing, climbing and archery when the first-ever Make a Move! event took place at the Team Bath Sports Training Village on Saturday. Olympic Champion Amy Williams and Paralympic medallists Dimitri Coutya, Andy Lewis and Stephanie Millward were among the inspirational sports stars who helped the youngsters and their families get active during a fun-packed day....
Team Bath Tennis player Alicia Barnett is the new British number one in women’s doubles after she and partner Olivia Nicholls won their first WTA 250 title in Canada this week. Barnett, coached by Ian MacDonald at the Team Bath Sports Training Village, and Nicholls recovered from a set down to beat fellow Brit Harriet Dart and her partner Rosalie Van der Hoek 5-7 6-3 10-1 in the final of the Granby National Bank Championships....
