TeamBath women's 1st team successfully rounded off an outstanding year by winning the BUCS Team Championship to add to the Premier League title they had already won. The team, captained by Caroline Rosamond (3rd year Sports Performance), beat Durham in the semi final on a tie break shoot out having drawn the match 3 rubbers all. Wins from Steph Cornish (2nd year Economics) and Alex Walker (1st Year Sports Performance) in their singles gave Bath a 2-0 lead.

Caroline and Barbara Pietrkiewicz (1st year International Management) both lost their singles in tight matches meaning it was all to play for in the doubles. Steph and Alex pulled out a good win on a third set tie break, with Alex serving a huge ace out wide at 8-8. Katie Jessop (1st year Coach Education) teamed up with Caroline but went down in a closely fought match. Barbara and Steph dominated their opponents to win the deciding tie break shoot out by winning both their tie breaks setting up the final against Loughborough.

The final saw Bath dominate from the start. Steph, Alex and Barbara all putting good wins on the board putting Bath 3-1 up after singles. Steph and Alex then teamed up to maintain their 100% record for the season and win the match that ensured Bath were champions.

Coach James Andell said "The girls have been outstanding all season both on and off court. They fight for everything and work hard for each other. The team spirit has been fantastic all year"

TeamBath Mens team unfortunately lost to Loughborough at the semi final stage. The Men, who had earlier in the season won the Premier League, played and fought well but Loughborough proved too strong.

Toby Martin of TeamBath - MCTA training hard in Cyprus for 8 days on the clay courts at Aphrodite Hills with Marcos Baghdatis, world No 40 and his coach Miles Maclagan.

Also see below some images from Nottingham ITF plus Bolton Brit tour.

It has been a tough week with extreme whether conditions for this time of the year in Tashkent Uzbekistan in Central Asia! 4 inches of snow on the first few days of the Main Draw pushed the competition indoors onto 3 courts. The organisers were very efficient and as soon as the snow stopped, courts were cleared and play started outside in the freezing weather, Toby and Callum's first round doubles match was one of the first evening matches played after the snow and during the freezing cold weather (minus 5) which made it really tough to get a first round win against a Latvia and Uzbekistan pairing!

However a 3rd set tie break win enabled them to reach the quarter finals which they found a lot easier due to the improved weather conditions. They soon came up against the Singles No1 and 2 seeded players who were playing as the doubles no1 seeds. Toby and Callum by now had settled into the competition, having moved accommodation, they won comfortably to take then through to the final which was played Friday at 11:30am against a Russian pairing.

This competition was certainly tough, the organisers were superb, the people friendly and the translator made the tournament, sorting out money, transport, Sim Cards and anything else that was required. A great experience has been had by all. Toby Mitchell trains at Team Bath MCTA and Callum Poland Smith is trained by Gino Demichelli at Hackney City Tennis Club.

Daniel Little has taken the U16 Tennis Europe Boy's single title an the Pajulahti Cup, in Nastola, Finland.

Dan justified his top seeding position to easily go past Ahti from Finland 62 61 in the 1st round. His next match proved far tougher, eventually holding his nerve to defeat Kurovskiy of Russia 63 36 64. Dan's closest match was his quarter final against Vasa from Finland, recovering from losing the first set 46, then winning a huge tie break 76(10), and again staying calm to win the decider 64. Dan cruised through the semi 61 62 against Lutter from Estonia, and the final 62 61 against Estonia's Klettenberg. The result will push Dan well inside the Top 50 in the Tennis Europe rankings.

William Bissett beat Russian Kostikov 75 64 in his 1st match. Will went down in Round 2 to eventual finalist Kluttenburg 64 62. Dan and Will lost a close Semi Final in the Doubles, to local pair Hyrkkonen & Kauppila.

Dan and William move North to Oulu this week with coach Craig Procter for a further TE16 Event.

Alex Walker and Marshall Tutu (both Sports Performance) have been selected to represent the Great Britain Universities team in France at the prestigious BNP Paribas event at the start of December. The annual event sees 8 Nations including France, America and China compete over 3 days in a Davis Cup / Fed Cup format and is a high level international event with the French usually having players ranked around 250 WTA / ATP and America bringing over their top ranked college players.

The event is a great chance for both players to gain some international experience and put themselves in the frame for World University Games in Russia 2013 – the second largest multi sport event in the world. It comes on the back of both players working hard on their tennis whilst also obtaining a degree as both players have been out competing in $10 / 25k events as well as British tours.

TeamBath MCTA Performance Coach James Andell said “I am delighted both players have been selected to represent GB. Both players are training extremely hard and have had some good results in the past few months, especially Alex who won a round of the $10k last week at Loughborough as well as making the semis of doubles the same week.”