British No 3 Louise Hunt completed her build up to the British Open Wheelchair Tennis Championships by claiming runners-up honours for the second year in a row in Sunday's women's singles final at the Bavarian Open in Wendelstein, Germany.
Second seed Hunt, who was contesting her sixth NEC Wheelchair Tennis Tour singles final of 2011, had her bid for her third title of the season ended by Italian top seed Marianna Lauro, who went on to claim the spoils at the ITF 3 Series event 6-2, 6-1.
Hunt is the fifth Briton to claim runners-up honours on the NEC Tour in successive days after Britain's top two ranked women's players, Lucy Shuker and Jordanne Whiley, reached Saturday's women's doubles final at the Swiss Open.
Jamie Burdekin and John Parfitt also finished runners-up in the quad doubles final in Geneva, with all five now joining Britain's other leading players in one of the strongest international fields ever assembled for the 22nd British Open, which gets underway on Tuesday at Nottingham Tennis Centre.
Organised by the Tennis Foundation, the British Open is an ITF Super Series event on the NEC Wheelchair Tennis Tour and one of the five most important tournaments in the world outside of the Grand Slams.
This year’s tournament comes within the year-long qualification window for wheelchair tennis at the London 2012 Paralympic Games, and is therefore vitally important for many of the 112 players from 22 countries contesting the event.
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