Archive: nino-severino
Greetings TENNIS Readers, fans, players, coaches, lines people, ball kids, young players, ticket - buyers, PATRONS, instructors, DOUBLES PLAYERS of all shapes and sizes and ages and abilities. 2015 was quite a year.....
Wimbledon 2015 is almost over. The team from 10sBalls_com is all packed up. Most are asleep already. I'm just tying up loose ends. We've been in the United Kingdom since June 10. In a few hours it will all be in the record books.
Cheers. The team here at 10sBalls_com is in the United Kingdom. We were picked up by the services provided by "HEAD CONCIERGE" FRASER RUSSELL'S STAFF. No, this wasn't a paid plug!
After the rain clouds lifted in Nottingham, it was fitting that a young and exciting player Ana Konjuh made her mark in winning her first WTA Tour title on a Monday morning final.
Teenager Ana Konjuh won her first WTA title in Monday’s delayed Aegon Open Nottingham final, coming from a set down to beat Monica Niculescu of Romania 1-6 6-4 6-2 and lift The Elena Baltacha Trophy.
The coverage of Elena Baltacha’s death was remarkable. The British papers were full of the terrible news; the sports pages devoted acres of space to her career and achievements, the news pages ran tributes and pictures and the obituary writers cleared their desks and rang every sportswriter they could think of for information and anecdotes.
The Lawn Tennis Association (LTA) is proud to announce today, on the one-year anniversary of the passing of a shining light from British Tennis, that the inaugural winner of the 2015 Aegon Open Nottingham WTA event will be presented with the newly commissioned ‘The Elena Baltacha Trophy.’
The death of long-time British no.1 Elena Baltacha from liver cancer in May was one of the saddest news items of the 2014 tennis year but her former coach and husband Nino Severino is determined his wife’s legacy will live long.
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.
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...
