When Britain’s Joe Salisbury won the Australian Open men’s doubles title with Rajeev Ram on Sunday, fans of university sport would have found the name familiar. Joe Salisbury and Darren Walsh, gold medallists in the men’s doubles at Gwangju 2015Salisbury, who was ranked outside the world’s top 100 two years ago, will now rise […]
The Summer Universiade holds a special place in the heart of five-time medalist Ksenia Lykina, a tennis player from Kazan, Russia. Lykina took the court in 2009 in Belgrade, 2011 in Shenzhen, and 2015 in Gwangju, coming away with an impressive haul of two gold and three bronze medals. “I was honoured to […]
Chun-Hsin Tseng takes the men’s singles title and Naho Sato the women’s singles gold. Yana Sizikova and Ivan Gakhov of Russia withstood a final set tiebreak against Czech Republic to take home the mixed doubles title NAPOLI, 13 July – The nine days of the tennis event at Napoli 2019 culminated with the finals in men’s […]
Part of the promised of innovation in sports and athlete development in African university sports, the African University Sports Federation organized her first Tennis Slam at the famous Makerere University in Uganda from the the 19th -20th of April 2019. With several African federations participating, it was the university athletes in Uganda who […]
Sunday night at the Marcq-en-Baroeul in Lille, England defeated six-time defending champion United States to take home the 12th edition of Master’U BNP Paribas, a world university tennis event. After 6 matches and more than eleven hours of championship tennis, England pulled out its first win in tournament history with a 4-2 victory in the […]
GWANGJU – The United Kingdom men’s tennis doubles team are guaranteed at least a silver medal at the Summer Universiade, after sending the Japanese pairing home thanks to a 10-8 last set tiebreak win. Joe Salisbury (University of Memphis) and Darren Walsh (Southern Methodist University) had to not only go to the third […]
Former FISU Technical Chair for Tennis Jean Brechbühl at his 100th birthday on 18 June, 2013 LAUSANNE – It is with great sadness that FISU has learnt about the death of former FISU Technical Chair for Tennis Jean Brechbühl. Being to oldest FISU Honorary Member alive – he was 101 years old – Swiss Jean […]
Former FISU Technical Chair for Tennis Jean Brechbühl at his 100th birthday on 18 June, 2013 LAUSANNE – Today, 18 June, Former FISU Technical Chair for Tennis Jean Brechbühl turns 100 today! Swiss Jean Brechbühl was born on 18 June 1913 and became an excellent tennis player. He also authored several well known books about […]
