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...
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...
Russia’s Dmitry Tursunov, a former top 20 player who is coming back after injury, will be the big draw as today’s matches get underway at the AEGON ATP Challenger tournament at TeamBath. Tursunov, seeded third, takes on Ruben Bemelmans of Denmark in the opening round as the fourth match on Court 1. Entry for spectators to the Sports Training Village is free of charge and this is the first time that the Village has hosted...
France’s Nicolas Mahut will be relieved to glance through the draw for this month’s AEGON ATP Challenger tournament at TeamBath and see that American John Isner doesn’t feature on the entry list. Mahut battled out a marathon 183-game 11-hour and five-minute match with the American in the first round at Wimbledon last year, only to lose the final set 70-68 in a contest played out over three days. The Challenger event, which takes places at...
Bath’s first ATP Challenger Tour international tennis tournament and home netball fixtures against two of the top teams in the Fiat Superleague are the highlights of a month of stunning sporting action at the University of Bath Sports Training Village in March. The indoor tennis courts at the Sports Training Village host an Aegon GB Pro-Series ATP Challenger event for the first time from Saturday 19 March to Sunday 27 March. The competition is likely...
University of Bath-based wheelchair tennis player Louise Hunt has collected the women’s doubles title at her first tournament season on the 2011 NEC Wheelchair Tennis Tour. The 19-year-old University of Bath Sports Performance student won the women’s doubles title at the Jura Indoors at Delemont in Switzerland. The British No 3, from Wanborough in Wiltshire, paired up with Switzerland's Parmila Grangier at the ITF Futures Series event to beat 2004 Athens Paralympic women's doubles bronze...
Young Team Bath MCTA Tennis Academy players are celebrating a double doubles success after capturing both of the pairs titles at an international tournament in Kenya. Teenage tennis players from the academy, based at the University of Bath, won both the boys’ doubles and the girls’ doubles titles at the Mombasa International Junior Championship. Seventeen-year-old Scott Clayton and 16-year-old David Fox were unseeded for the tournament but ran out comprehensive 6-1, 6-1 winners over Kenya’s...
Team Bath Tennis Academy player Richard Gabb is celebrating after winning a brace of national titles at under-18 level. Gabb won both the boys’ singles and the boys’ doubles titles at the AEGON British Junior Under-18 National Championships at the National Tennis Centre in Roehampton. Seeded five for the singles, he beat sixth seed Lewis Burton in straights sets 6-1, 6-1, 6-2 to win the final. He had earlier despatched number four seed Tom Allen...
