Team Bath MCTA Academy players Seb Butler and Dan Little are celebrating victory in the boys' doubles at the Nairobi International Junior Championships in Kenya. The Bath pair kept their nerve to beat Brit Jay Clarke and partner Mwendwa Mbithi from the USA 76(2) 76(5) in the final of the ITF (World Junior Tour) Event. The win was particularly pleasing considering this was the first time the boys had paired together, and also the first...
Judo player Andy Burns and tennis player Samantha Murray are Team Bath’s latest athletes of the month. Burns was named winner of the men’s award after taking gold at the World Cup event in Belarus. Murray won the women’s award after becoming the first Team Bath MCTA tennis player to win a Challenger tournament, when she triumphed in Glasgow. Burns collected his award from Tyron Dawkins, Oakley UK’s Brand Ambassador. Murray was playing overseas and...
Some of Britain’s stars of the London 2012 Olympics Games will be in action at the University of Bath as filming for the BBC’s Superstar programme takes place. For further background information please go to: University to host filming of BBC Olympic “Superstars” Please note ALL enquiries about tickets and running orders must be made direct to the ticketing agency Applause. You can contact Applause via their website.
Hi everyone, Lots to report this week. Last weekend saw swimming compete in the short course event. It was a successful event that saw Bath finish second. Special mention goes to Michael Jamieson who was awarded male swimmer of the meet, by winning the 50m, 100m and 200m breaststroke and coming third in the 200m individual medley. Anne Bochmann had similar success, winning the 200, 400 and 800m freestyle and coming third in the 400m...
There was a double success for Team Bath MCTA Academy tennis players at the weekend with Callum Poland-Smith collecting a singles title in Malaysia and Adam Glynn winning in Kuwait. Seventeen-year-old Poland-Smith took an all-Bath boys’ singles final to the win the Sarawak Chief Minister’s Cup in Malaysia. The 17-year-old number three seed beat six seed Samm Butler 6-3 6-4 in the final. Poland-Smith and Japanese partner Naoki Nakagawa also reached the final of the...
University of Bath student Louise Hunt claimed her fifth ITF 2 women’s doubles title of the year with victory at the Nottingham indoor Wheelchair Tennis Tournament at the weekend. The London 2012 Paralympian partnered Germany’s Sabine Ellerbrock as top seeds for the Nottingham tournament. The pair took the title beating Jordanne Whiley and Lauren Jones 6-0 6-2 in the final. "I've been waiting to play doubles with Sabine for ages and it hasn't worked out...
Team Bath MCTA tennis player Samantha Murray followed up her maiden Challenger title at the Glasgow $25,000 event by reaching the quarter-finals of the $50,000 National Bank Challenger in Saguenay, Canada. Murray took out Marie-Eve Pelletier, the number eight seed from Canada in the first round, and followed that up with a win over Michaela Honcova of the Slovak Republic 6-2, 6-4. That set up a quarter-final match against WTA number 98 ranked Melanie Oudin...
Team Bath MCTA tennis player Samantha Murray has won the Aegon GB Pro-Series Glasgow title. The victory marks the first Challenger event title for a Team Bath tennis player. In the final, 25 year-old Murray defeated seventh seed Alison Van Uytvanck of Belgium 6-3, 2-6, 6-3 to win her first ever title at a Futures level. On her way to the final, unseeded Murray recorded some impressive wins over second seeded Romanian Cristina-Andreea Mitu, whom...
University of Bath student Louise Hunt retained both her singles and doubles titles at the Cardiff Wheelchair Tennis Tournament at the weekend. It means Hunt, who made her Paralympic Games debut for Great Britain at London 2012, has now won two singles titles and six doubles titles this year. In her second tournament since the Games, the British number three opened her women’s singles title defence in the all-British field with a 6-0, 6-0 victory...
Team Bath MCTA Academy Players are being served up some top tips on court this week from Andy Murray’s one-time coach, Miles Maclagan. He is visiting the University of Bath’s Sports Training Village to practise with the players based on site and to attend a players’ meeting. Maclagan, born in Zambia to Scottish parents, appeared at Wimbledon five times – taking Boris Becker to five sets in 1999 - won two ATP career titles and...
