University of Bath student Louise Hunt has made a terrific start to 2012 winning back to back tournaments in Australia. Hunt, who is a Sports Performance student, won the women’s doubles title at the Melbourne Open disability event partnering Jordanne Whiley. The number three seeds beat Japanese top seeds Yui Kamiji and Yuko Okabe 6-2, 3-6, (10-6) in the final. That performance came just a week after the pair won the women’s doubles at the...
Players from the Team Bath MCTA Tennis Academy had the privilege of practising with the world’s best players at the Barclays ATP World Tour Finals Academy players Miles Bugby, Toby Mitchell and Scott Clayton had the opportunity to train with some of the players competing at the O2 Arena, including world number one Novak Djokovic. Dave Sammel, Managing Director of the Team Bath MCTA Tennis Academy, said: “This is a fantastic opportunity for our young...
University of Bath student Louise Hunt goes into her final wheelchair tennis tournament of the season this week in Nottingham on the crest of a wave after winning her fourth title in two weeks on Saturday in Greece. A week after winning singles and doubles titles at the Esporta Cardiff tournament, Hunt repeated the feat at the Sitia Open in Greece and has subsequently equalled her career best women's singles world ranking, moving up one place since...
University of Bath student Louise Hunt and partner Lucy Shuker have won back-to-back wheelchair tennis women’s doubles titles in North America. A week ago the British pair won the TennisCanada International in Montreal, beating Shelby Baron (USA) and Kgothatso Montjane (RSA) 6-1, 6-1 in the final of Hunt’s first North American tournament. And on Saturday they followed that up by taking the PTR Wheelchair Tennis Championships in Hilton Head in South Carolina. The top seeds...
Fourteen-year-old Team Bath MCTA Tennis Academy player Will Bissett is celebrating victory in the national finals of the HSBC Road to Wimbledon 14 and Under Challenge, played at the home of The Championships. Just weeks after Novak Djokovic and Petra Kvitova triumphed at Wimbledon, it was the turn of Bissett to take the honours, becoming the 10th winner of the boys’ title at the Road to Wimbledon event. Bissett, who was unseeded for the tournament,...
Young Team Bath MCTA Tennis Academy players are celebrating an impressive series of AEGON British Junior National Championships title wins. Toby Martin led the way by winning the boys’ under-18 singles title at Roehampton. Martin was unseeded for the tournament, but produced a confident display to beat top seed Luke Bambridge 6-4, 6-1 in the final. It’s the second successive year that a Team Bath MTCA Academy player has won the boys’ under-18 singles title...
Team Bath teenager Toby Martin made a battling junior grand slam debut at Wimbledon before going down to world number 39 Kimmer Coppejans. The Team Bath MCTA Tennis Academy player, ranked 303 in the junior world rankings, went down 6-4, 6-4 to the more experienced Belgian player in the boys’ singles yesterday (Monday). Toby had to battle back from two games down in both of the sets. Barry Scollo, Team Bath’s Director of Tennis, said:...
Dmitry Tursunov beat Andreas Beck to win the AEGON GB Pro-Series in Bath today 6-4,6-4, despite admitting to a bout of early nerves. “In the first set I was a little nervous and didn’t move too well”, said the Russian former top 20 player who is coming back from injury”. “It was very important for me to play safe and not try and blast the ball everywhere until I could get hold of my nerves”....
Dmitry Tursunov of Russia will face Andreas Beck of Germany in tomorrow’s final of the AEGON ATP Challenger tournament at the University of Bath – an all-time first encounter for the duo. Beck, seeded six and world ranked 135, won his semi-final today in three sets 2-6, 6-4, 6-1 against Jurgen Zopp of Estonia. Tursunov, a former top 20 player who is seeded third and world-ranked 100, beat Britain’s Dan Evans by a comfortable 6-3,6-2...
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...
