Archive: elena-baltacha
What a great day @ The Queens Club . The doubles finals was awesome and I'm certain the Brits wanted Jamie Murray and John Peers to have won. But it was Peya / Soares 4-6,7-6,10-4.
The international tennis family joined together today for Rally for Bally to celebrate the life of Elena Baltacha, one of Britain’s most successful ever female players.
Top seed Ana Ivanovic will be bidding for the first grass-court title of her career on Sunday when she takes on Barbora Zahlavova Strycova in the Aegon Classic singles final in Birmingham.
Fifteen time Grand Slam champion Martina Hingis, double Australian Open champion Victoria Azarenka and British No.1 Heather Watson will join a host of stars taking part in the Rally For Bally on Sunday as some of the biggest names in tennis join together for three star-studded exhibition matches in London, Birmingham and Eastbourne.
The Women's Tennis Association (WTA) is encouraging tennis fans worldwide to pledge their support for the fundraising efforts for "Rally For Bally," a series of exhibition tennis matches staged on Sunday, June 15, in memory of former British No.1 tennis player Elena Baltacha...
With the sun beating down and the grass playing perfectly, four-time champion Lleyton Hewitt and Britain’s No.2 and No.3 players were all victorious on day one of the Aegon Championships at The Queen’s Club.
Clay court tennis. Do you like it ? Love it ? Hate it ? Can you slide ? Do you like balls that skid off the line ? Do you like the "DIRT " all over you ? How about when it goes down in your socks ?
The British No.4 Dan Cox has been awarded the fifth and final wild card into the Aegon Championships, which starts at The Queen’s Club on Monday.
Marion Bartoli will share a court with fellow Wimbledon singles champion Andy Murray as part of the Rally For Bally on June 15th.
The Draw for the 2015 Fed Cup by BNP Paribas will be held at Tenniseum at Roland Garros in Paris on Wednesday 4 June at 12:00 local time (10:00 GMT). The Draw will be streamed live on the official Fed Cup website: www.fedcup.com
Elena Baltacha continues to be lauded as “one of the shining lights of British women's tennis of recent generations”. Tributes continue to roll in for the former British No. 1 who died from liver cancer at the age of 30 earlier this week.
More hours of grass court tennis will be shown on British television than ever before in the run-up to The Championships, Wimbledon after the Lawn Tennis Association (LTA) signed an agreement with BT Sport to cover the Aegon Classic (Birmingham), the Aegon Championships (Queen’s) and the Aegon International (Eastbourne) in June.
Elena, who always went by her nickname Bally, was diagnosed with liver cancer in mid-January 2014, two months after retiring from professional tennis and just a few weeks after marrying Nino Severino, her long-time coach and partner. Despite a determined battle against the disease, she passed away peacefully at home with her husband Nino by her side and surrounded by friends and family.
World No.3 Agnieszka Radwanska and the 2011 Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitova will take part in the Rally For Bally in Eastbourne on 15th June as support for the cause continues to grow throughout the tennis world.
The word came in this morning. Bally's life was being celebrated today by all that were there to say a final goodbye. We were told to dress in bright colors and celebrate Dear Bally's life. So I quickly changed to a very bright pink shirt...
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