- Born: 24 May 1991
- Plays: Right-handed, women's division
- Lives: Wanborough, Wiltshire
- Career Titles (singles): 13
- Career Titles (doubles): 41
- Coach: Alistair Ward
- Highest Ranking 13 (22 May 2015)
- Twitter: @LouiseHunt1
- Website: www.louisehunt.net (link opens in new window)
- Current rankings and activity (link opens in new window)
Louise started playing wheelchair tennis aged eight and became a very successful junior player, winning the girls’ doubles title on three occasions at the Junior Wheelchair Tennis Masters in Tarbes, France. She reached a career best junior ranking of No. 2 in January 2009. Louise won her first senior women’s singles title in Turkey in 2009 and added a second title in Turkey later that year.
In 2010 she reached her first ITF 2 Series final at the South Africa Open and attained what was then her career best singles ranking of No. 18. Louise has helped GB’s women’s team to the latter stages of the ITF World Team Cup in each of the last five seasons, being runners-up for the first time ever in 2009, finishing fourth in 2010 and finishing in bronze medal position in 2011 and 2012.
Louise’s 2011 season saw her win four singles titles, including her first two titles at ITF 3 Series status. She also won a total of eight double titles. She started 2012 by winning back-to-back doubles titles in Australia and ended the season having won seven doubles titles and two singles titles, including her first ITF 2 Series women’s singles title at the Israel Open in May. That title ensured her qualification for London 2012, where she made her Paralympic Games debut losing out in the first round against top ten opposition Yui Kamiji from Japan.
Louise also qualified to make her Doubles Masters debut in November 2012, while off court she graduated from the University of Bath with a degree in Sports Performance and Science. Louise has started 2013 by winning two doubles titles at back-to-back tournaments in Switzerland and Great Britain and claimed the women’s singles in Sheffield. She has since reached the women's singles final and won the women's doubles at the Open International Fundacion Emilio Sanchez Vicario in Spain.
In May Louise was a member of the GB team that won the silver medal in the women's even at the 2013 BNP Paribas World Team Cup in Turkey and in June the highlight of her back-to-back ITF 1 Series tournaments in Korea was a place in the final of the women's doubles at the Korea Open in Seoul. Louise was runner-up in the mixed doubles at the British Open Wheelchair Tennis Championships in July and then won the women's doubles at the Open de L'Ile de Re in France in September. In October she won the women's singles and doubles at the ITF Futures tournament in Wrexham and then finished runner-up in the women's doubles at the Nottingham Indoor. Louise completed her 2013 international season in November by finishing fifth in the Doubles Masters in California, partnering Japan's Miho Nijo and after improving her doubles world ranking in successive tournaments she moved to a career best doubles high of No. 11. In December Louise won her fifth British women's doubles title.
Louise started 2014 by reaching the women’s singles and doubles finals at the North West Challenge and in March she won the women’s doubles and finished runner-up in the women’s singles at the ITF 2 Desert Classic in Arizona. She's gone on to win the women's doubles at the Israel Open in May and won both the women's singles and women's doubles at the 6th Open Memorial Santi Silvas in Spain in June, while being a member of Great Britain's silver medal-winning women's team at the BNP Paribas World Team Cup in the Netherlands In July she won the women's singles and doubles at the Rezidencija Open in Croatia and won back-to-back doubles titles at the Ath Open and Flanders 25 in Belgium in August. Louise went on to win the women's doubles at the PTR Championships in September and returned to the USA in November to reach the final of the UNIQLO Wheelchair Doubles Masters, partering Germany's Katharina Kruger. Louise ended the season by also partnering Kruger to win the women's doubles at the Prague Cup Czech Indoor.
Since starting 2015 in back-to-back singles and doubles finals in tournaments in Britain, Hunt was part of Great Britain's bronze medal-winning women's team at the BNP Paribas World Team Cup in May and has since gone from strength-to-strength, beating her first world top 10 ranked opponent, Katharina Kruger, en route to winning the Polish Open. Hunt also partnered Kruger to win the women's doubles at the Czech Open. After reaching her career best singles ranking at No. 13 Louise will now make her Grand Slam debut partnering Kruger in the women's doubles at Wimbledon.
Biography up-to-date as of July 2015.
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