Archive: rally-for-bally
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.
The Australian Open champion and World No.3 Stanislas Wawrinka has added further strength and star-quality to the Aegon Championships player field after receiving a wild card into the tournament at The Queen’s Club, 9-15 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 2011 runner-up Jo Wilfried Tsonga and the youngest player ranked inside the world’s Top 20, Grigor Dimitrov, have both committed to play in the Aegon Championships, 9-15 June.
Andy Murray, Martina Navratilova and Tim Henman will lead an all-star line up at exhibition matches in three of the country's biggest tournaments as British Tennis stages a second Rally Against Cancer charity event - 'Rally For Bally' - on Sunday 15th June.
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