Team Bath MCTA tennis aces looking to continue progress in singles and doubles tournaments

There is plenty of home interest on Court 1 at the University of Bath Sports Training Village on Thursday as the Aegon GB Pro-Series tennis tournament reaches its latter stages. Team Bath MCTA’s Lisa Whybourn (pictured left) is first on court as she looks to reach the last eight of the women’s $25k competition. Her match against Georgia’s Mariam Bolkvadze will be followed by a men’s quarter-final between Ireland’s Sam Barry and Richard Gabb, another Team Bath MCTA...

12 November 2015

Number two seed awaits University student during action-packed day of tennis at STV

University of Bath tennis ace Emma Hurst will be looking to continue her winning form on home turf when she faces the number two seed in the Aegon GB Pro-Series women’s $25k tournament on Wednesday. And there will also be local interest in the men’s singles as Team Bath MCTA’s Richard Gabb looks to book his place in the quarter-finals of the $15k competition. Sport & Exercise Science student Hurst, a 2014-15 Trendell Sport Scholar...

11 November 2015

Team Bath players in action as main competition gets under way in Aegon GB Pro-Series Event

The $15k men’s singles tournament gets under way in earnest on Tuesday as the week-long Aegon GB Pro-Series Tennis Event at the University of Bath ramps up. After two hard-fought days of qualification, the last 32 men are now in place and all 16 first-round matches will take place during another busy day of competition at the Sports Training Village. Number one seed Tom Kocevar-Desman of Slovenia will start his title bid against Germany’s Tom...

10 November 2015

3:Thirty Club cycle their way to the Pride Lands of Africa

More than 300 University of Bath students enjoyed an outdoor big-screen showing of The Lion King – all courtesy of the leg work of 3:Thirty Club students. The 3:Thirty Club – the University’s recreational and social sports programme – facilitated the evening with a purpose of collaborating the Student Union’s initiative of Go Green Week  and Sport England’s University Activation Programme which aims to create more opportunities for students to get involved in sport. The...

09 November 2015

Judoka Ben Fletcher strikes gold in Mauritius to take step closer to Rio 2016

Team Bath Judo Club’s Ben Fletcher gained more valuable qualification points on the road to the Rio 2016 Olympic Games as he struck gold at the African Open Championships in Mauritius. The 23-year-old, coached by Juergen Klinger at the University of Bath, dominated all of his fights in the under-100kg weight division to claim the third international title of his career and his second in 2015, following his success in Tunis in January. After overcoming...

09 November 2015

Team Bath tennis aces meet as Aegon GB Pro-Series Event gets into full swing

It promises to be an action-packed day on the tennis courts at the University of Bath Sports Training Village on Monday as the Aegon GB Pro-Series Event gets into full swing. The men, who got the week-long international professional event under way on Monday, return for the third qualifying round of their $15K tournament while the women begin their bid to earn a place in the main draw of their $25k competition. Among those taking part...

09 November 2015

Three more medals in Dubai takes Jazz Carlin’s World Cup haul to fantastic five

Jazz Carlin continued her good form at the FINA/airweave World Cup by winning three medals on the Dubai leg. The National Performance Centre Bath swimmer, coached by Dave McNulty and Graeme Antwhistle at the Sports Training Village, clocked 8:30.79 to win silver in the 800m freestyle. She had earlier won bronze in the 200m freestyle and returned to the pool the following day to also finish third in the 400m freestyle. Carlin, who won 400m and...

09 November 2015

Best-ever medal haul as GB Bobsleigh Youth Olympic hopefuls make flying start to season

Great Britain Bobsleigh's Youth Olympic hopefuls got their season off to a stunning start as they dominated the medal table in Calgary. GB won eight medals in the opening two races of a seven-race season that will determine who qualifies for the second Youth Olympics in Lillehammer in February 2016. Kelsea Purchall and Annabel Chaffey claimed a gold medal apiece in Canada, with Purchall winning Race 1 on Wednesday night and Chaffey repeating the feat...

09 November 2015

Earn, learn and become an award-winning Team Bath coach – meet the undergraduate who won Student Employee of the Year 2015

Team Bath offers a plethora of opportunities for students; they can train, compete and socialise as athletes – but they can also gain valuable experience as a coach. Opportunities include working with Tribe – Team Bath’s dedicated youth sport programme – to help young athletes not only develop their talent, but also use sport as a tool for learning key social skills that will serve them for the rest of their lives. One such student...

03 November 2015

Free chance to spot future aces as top-class tennis returns to University of Bath

Tennis fans can watch some of the world’s top up-and-coming stars in action for free this week when the Aegon GB Pro-Series Event returns to the University of Bath for a tenth successive year. Former Australian Open finalist Jo Wilfried-Tsonga and fellow Frenchman Nicolas Mahut are among past winners of the week-long ITF Pro Circuit event, which is run by the LTA and starts on Sunday, November 8. Big-serving Australian Sam Groth and Spain’s Roberto Bautista-Agut...

03 November 2015