Rugby players, footballers and judo players feature in the latest batch of University of Bath-based athletes selected to represent Great Britain at this summer’s World University Games in Russia. University of Bath students Amy Wilson-Hardy and graduates Katie Mason and Deb Fleming are named in the GB women’s rugby sevens team for the Games, which take place in the city of Kazan. Mason, a Sport and Exercise Science graduate, is one of four members of...
Talented young tennis player Amelia Bissett has won the Under-10 National Clay Court title. Amelia played some excellent tennis at the green ball competition, winning all of her matches on the clay courts at Queenswood in London. She beat two girls she had previously lost to at Easter tournaments, taking the final convincingly 4-1, 4-2. Amelia has shown excellent progression after winning the under-nine Masters on orange ball at Roehampton in March to now winning...
Team Bath MCTA tennis academy player Richie Gabb narrowly missed out on winning lifting his first $10,000 title last week, in Greece. Played in the town of Marathon, home of the Ancient Olympics, Gabb fought all the way through the draw, eventually losing the final in a tie-break decider to in-form Brit David Rice. On the way Gabb beat top Junior Filip Peliwo from Canada in the semi and overcame a tense quarter-final saving numerous...
The Womens 1st team travelled to Leeds to play the final of the BUCS Championship against Exeter. The team consisting of Steph Cornish, Alex Walker, Natasha Starling and Barbara Pietrkiewicz had already retained the Premier League South title earlier in the year. The match was highly competitive throughout and the team showed great desire in winning some close matches on their way to winning the title for a second successive year. Captain Alex Walker said...
The countdown to the country’s biggest multi-sport disability event of the year continued with the formal signing of contracts for the University of Bath to host the Special Olympics GB 2013 National Summer Games. The Games run from 28 August through to 1 September and will see more than 1700 athletes with intellectual disabilities from across Great Britain taking part in a programme featuring 12 different sports. The majority of sports will be held at...
Team Bath-MCTA’s Lisa Whybourn teamed up with Germany’s Nicola Geuer to take the Aegon GB Pro-Series women’s doubles title at the University of Bath’s Sports Training Village this weekend. The unseeded duo recorded a straight sets win over Viktorija Golubic and Julia Kimmelman, a Swiss–German combination in the final by 6-3,6-4. 21 year-old Whybourn, who is ranked in the world’s top 300 as a singles player, and Geuer also played an unseeded pair in the...
There was British success in the first final of the Aegon GB Pro-Series Bath competition, with Lewis Burton and Dan Evans taking the men’s doubles title at the Sports Training Village this afternoon (Friday). The British pair beat Jan Minar of the Czech Republic and Marek Semjan of Slovakia on a champions’ tie break in the final. Minar and Semjan had edged the opening set at the University of Bath by 7-5, before the British...
Britain’s hopes in the first final of the Aegon GB Pro-Series Bath competition rest on the shoulders of four seeds Lewis Burton and Dan Evans. The GB pairing tackle the unseeded Jan Minar of the Czech Republic and Marek Semjan of Slovakia in the men’s doubles final at the University of Bath Sports Training Village later today (Friday). Admission to watch the event is free. For an order of play and draw sheets go to...
Samm Butler and Aman Agarwal win ITF Junior Boy's Doubles Title - the Almetievsk Open, Russia. Butler, 17 and Agarwal, 16, paired up as top seeds for the week, they took the final by beating #2 local seeds Galyamoz and Mosgovey who defaulted in the second set at 1-3 after Butler and Agarwal won a close tie break to take the first set. R1 Kharchenko & Mokrousov 6-4 6-4 QF Bagdasaryan & Salbiev 4-6 6-4...
Top-flight international tennis returns to the University of Bath this month in the shape of the Aegon GB Pro-Series event – and you can watch the action for free. Once again there is a strong entry for both the men’s and women’s competition when the tournament gets underway at the Sports Training Village on Sunday 10 March. Both tournaments provide an opportunity to watch some of the rising stars of international tennis – previous winners...
