Team Bath’s unseeded Whybourn wins women’s doubles title
17th March 2013
Team Bath-MCTA’s Lisa Whybourn teamed up with Germany’s Nicola Geuer to take the Aegon GB Po-Series women’s doubles title at the University of Bath’s Sports Training Village this weekend.
The unseeded duo recorded a straight sets win over Viktorija Golubic and Julia Kimmelman, a Swiss–German combination in the final by 6-3,6-4.
21 year-old Whybourn, who is ranked in the world’s top 300 as a singles player, and Geuer also played an unseeded pair in the semi-finals after top seeds and Team Bath-MCTA playersSamantha Murray and Emily Webley-Smith went out in a tough quarter-final.
Victory for Whybourn was some compensation for her second round exit in the women’s singles.
Edward Corrie, who defeated Team Bath-MTCA’s Richard Gabb in a tense and well-contested quarter-final went on to take the men’s singles title from fellow Brit Dan Evans.
Evans had earlier lifted the men’s doubles trophy with Lewis Burton.
“We have had a good week of tennis action at the Sports Training Village”, said Barry Scollo, Director of Tennis at the University. “It was great to see Lisa take the title in this $15,000 event”.