Team Bath’s tennis players have clocked up a trio of national titles in two years. The boys U18 squad picked up the Aegon National Junior Club League title at the National Tennis Centre in Roehampton last weekend to add to titles previously won in the U16 boys and U16 girls age-groups. Chris Helliar, Max England, Stephen Crawshaw, Toby Mitchell and Dan Elston beat Hampshire Club 8-2 in the final at Roehampton after a 10-2 win...
Team Bath Tennis Academy player Richard Gabb has created an upset by beating the top seed in the opening round of the AEGON Pro-Series tournament at Frinton in Essex yesterday (Wednesday). Eighteen-year-old Gabb knocked British number six and Davis Cup player Dan Evans out of the tournament by beating him 6-4, 6-3 in the opening round of the main draw. Gabb, who is 10th ranked British junior, faces another Brit, world ranked 648 player Sean...
Team Bath Tennis Academy player Sid Hazarika is celebrating the biggest win of his career to date at the Under-18 AEGON Junior International Tournament in Edinburgh. The 16-year-old was seeded four for the boys’ singles and beat Germany’s Thomas Weigel in three sets in the final. Hazarika edged the first set 6-4 before the German levelled up by winning a second set tie break. But Hazarika held his nerve to take his first International Tennis...
Team Bath Tennis Academy player Richard Gabb’s Junior Wimbledon campaign came to an end with a quarter-final defeat today (Friday). Gabb, and former Team Bath player Ashley Hewitt, went down 6-4, 6-4 to Russia’s Mikhail Biryukov and Alexander Rumyanstev in this afternoon’s boys’ double clash on court five. Yesterday the unseeded pair ousted the number two seeds from the draw to reach the quarters. Gabb, who is 18, has been training at the University of...
Team Bath Tennis Academy player Richard Gabb and former Team Bath player Ashley Hewitt are one more victory away from a place in the boys’ doubles semi-final at Junior Wimbledon. The pair are back in action today (Friday) in the quarter-finals after accounting for the number two seeds in a bumper second round contest yesterday. Gabb and Hewitt took the first set against Damir Dzumhur (Bosnia & Herzegovenia) and Mate Pavic (Croatia) by winning the...
Team Bath Tennis Academy player Richard Gabb and former Team Bath player Ashley Hewitt swept aside their opponents in the opening round of their boys’ doubles match at Junior Wimbledon this afternoon (Wednesday) The unseeded pair beat New Zealand’s Sebastian Lavie and Argentina’s Renzo Olivo 6-3, 6-2 on court six to set up a second round tie against number two seeds Damir Dzumhur from Boznia & Herzegovina and Mate Pavic from Croatia. Gabb, now 18,...
Team Bath Tennis Academy players had the opportunity train with former Wimbledon champion Wes Moodie, who finalised his preparations for the French Open at the University of Bath. South African Moodie is ranked number nine in the world in doubles and won the men’s doubles title at Wimbledon with Stephen Huss in 2005. He was a finalist in the men’s doubles at the French Open at Roland Garros last year with Dick Norman. The pair...
