LTA PLAYER GUIDE 2013

Tennis Championships at Newport, Rhode
Island while Ken Skupski and Jamie Delgado
were runners up at the ATP Farmers Classic in
Los Angeles.
Dominic Inglot lifted his first ATP World Tour
title with partner Treat Huey at the Citi Open
in Washington.
Heather Watson won her first WTA title at
Stanford as she and Kiwi partner Marina
Erakovic took the doubles title while Laura
Robson reached her first WTA singles semifinal
at the XXV Italiacom Open in Palermo.
Jamie Burdekin reached his first main draw
final at Super Series level at the BNP Paribas
French Open where he finished runner-up in
the Quad singles. Andy Lapthorne and Peter
Norfolk took the Quad doubles title.
Gordon Reid claimed the doubles title at
the ITF 1 Series Swiss Open alongside Dutch
partner Maikel Scheffers. The 20 year-old
was then runner-up in the Men’s singles
at the British Open Wheelchair Tennis
Championships at Nottingham Tennis Centre.
British No.1 Lucy Shuker was a quarter-
finalist in the women’s singles and reached
the doubles semi-finals with South African
partner Kgothatso Montjane.
At Koblenz, Germany, the Great Britain
team took home five medals from the 12th
European Deaf Tennis Championships
highlighted by Gold for Bethany Brookes in
the Junior Girls’ singles and Gold for Sophie
Paul in the Junior Mixed doubles.
Johanna Konta reached the final at the $50K
ITF event in Lexington while Josh Goodall won
the singles title at the $10K JM Glendinning
International Tennis Tournament in Ilkley.
A British Girls’ team were victorious at the
Tennis Europe Summer Cups for the first time
since 1979. The 14U team of Maia Lumsden,
Jazzi Plews and Gabriella Taylor saw off
Germany 2-0 in the final.
The ITF 18&U Aegon Junior International in
Edinburgh saw Anna Brogan beat Anastasia
Mikheeva in an all-British final.
At the Tennis Europe Nations Challenge by
HEAD the 12&U Great Britain Girls’ team
qualified for the finals. The team of Ali
Collins, Eliz Maloney and Claudia Hallsworth
defeated Slovenia 2-1 to seal qualification.
AUGUST 2012
British No.1 Andy Murray defeated the
world’s top two at the Olympic Games, Novak
Djokovic and Roger Federer, to win Gold in the
Men’s singles on Centre Court. In the final the
British third seed swept past Federer 6-2, 6-1,
6-4 to avenge his Wimbledon defeat against
the Swiss World No.1.
Murray took a second medal as he and Laura
Robson claimed silver in the Mixed doubles as
the British duo finished as runners-up to top
seeds Victoria Azarenka and Max Mirnyi from
Belarus.
Heather Watson won her second WTA doubles
crown alongside Marina Erakovic at the Texas
Tennis Open in Dallas beating Liga Dekmeijere
and Irina Falconi 6-3, 6-0 in the final.
Tara Moore finished as the singles finalist
at the $50K event at Kazan in Russia. The
20 year-old dropped just one set en route to
the final before falling 6-3, 6-3 to Ukrainian
Katernya Kozlova.
Great Britain’s 18&U Boys’ team qualified for
the European Summer Cups finals after the
team of Jonny O’Mara, Scott Clayton and Clay
Crawford defeated the Slovak Republic 2-1 in
the qualifying final.
The 14&U Great Britain Girls’ team were
runners-up at the ITF World Junior Tennis
Finals in Prostejov, Czech Republic as
Gabriella Taylor, Jazzi Plews and Maia
Lumsden were edged out 2-1 by the Slovak
Republic in the final.
The British team of Katie Dunne, Anna Brogan
and Harriet Dart defeated the USA 8-4 to win
the 36th Maureen Connolly Challenge Trophy
in New Haven.
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