Despite losing to Guatemala 1-2 today, the team gains promotion along with Bolivia to Americas Zone, Group II in 2012. Barbados has not been in Group II for more than twenty years when Richard Ashby and Martin Blackman represented the island in the early 1990s. Follow results at Clubtennis SantaCruz or Davis Cup Americas Group III results For CBC TV […]
After the good start to the 2011 Davis Cup campaign on Wednesday, when they beat host nation Bolivia 2-1, the team followed up with a 3-0 win against Aruba on Thursday. Haydn Lewis won his match 6-2, 6-2, Darian King won his singles 6-1,6-3 and the pair went on to win the doubles 6-0, 6-1. The team’s next match is the last of the preliminary […]
The four man team of Darian King, Haydn Lewis, Seanon Williams and UK based Anthony Marshall along with non-playing captain Kevin Yarde head to Santa Cruz, Bolivia to play in the Americas Zone Group III of the 2011 Davis Cup team tennis competition. Eight teams are entered in Group III and are initially split into two groups of four, with each […]
Due to circumstances beyond our control, the 2011 Masters, Open and Junior Nationals tournaments originally scheduled to run from June 18 – July 7 have been postponed. The 2011 Nationals have now been rescheduled to be played at the National Tennis Centre from September 2 – 23, 2011. The revised 2011 tournament calendar can be found at Tournaments – see at top […]
Defending champions Summerhayes Tennis Club narrowly defeated the National Tennis Centre team to win the 2011 BNB Inter Club tennis championship by 39 points 36. With the final played at the National Tennis Centre on May 7, each team had won 2 matches coming into the decider. Summerhayes duly took the final mixed doubles in a very close encounter to […]
The 2011 Barbados International Junior Championships concluded yesterday with two unseeded pairings contesting the U18s boys doubles final. Grenadian Yannick James and Barbadian Matthew Hutchinson lost to the British pairing of Thomas Colautti and Callum Poland-Smith 2-6, 1-6 at the National Tennis Centre. Colautti the # 6 seed had earlier taken the U18s boys singles with a convincing 6-3, 6-4 […]
We are again preparing to host the Barbados Junior International ITF Championships at the National Tennis Centre and the Barbados Yacht Club running from Saturday March 26 to the scheduled finals day on Friday April 1, 2011. The tournament, which is held for Under-18 and Under-14 tennis players has full entries in the Under-18 boys’ and girls’ singles main draws, […]
The Barbados teams of Gavin Hutchinson, Andrew Symmonds and Joshua Worme together with Kiana Marshall, Cherise Slocombe and Symphony Griffith were amongst the twenty-one countries in the boys’ event and fourteen countries in the girls’ event competing in Santo Domingo this week for the final places in the WJTC U14s Qualifying event in Merida, Mexico to be held from 29 […]
Tutor Damien Applewhaite held a three day Play Tennis course at the National Tennis Centre from May 13-15, 2011 Fifteen students attended and thoroughly enjoyed learning the new techniques for introducing tennis to starter players. For more information on Play Tennis courses – see ITF Play Tennis Course
Many thanks to all those who attended and supported our successful Hawaiian Luau fundraiser held at the Barbados Yacht Club on Saturday night – the proceeds of which have gone towards the travel expenses of our teams participating in this week’s WJTC regional qualifiers in Dominican Republic for U14s. See Photo Gallery for action of the evening.