Swiss doubles title for Louise Hunt

Friday, February 25, 2011
Wiltshire's Louise Hunt has won the women's doubles at the Jura Indoors in Delemont, Switzerland, her first tournament of the season on the 2011 NEC Wheelchair Tennis Tour.
 
The 19-year-old British No 3 paired up with Switzerland's Parmila Grangier at the ITF Futures Series event to beat 2004 Athens Paralympic women's doubles bronze medallist Karin Suter of Switzerland and her German partner Linda Wagemann 6-3, 6-4 in Saturday's semifinals.  The top seeds then went on to defeat the second seeds, Russia's Ludmila Bubnova and Sophie Fraioli of France 6-3, 6-0 in Sunday's final.
 
The doubles semi-final victory over Suter and Wagemann gave Hunt a measure of recompense for a 3-6, 2-6 loss to Suter in the opening round of the women's singles before the Swiss former world No 6 went on to lift the title after victory over Grangier in the final.
 
Hunt now joins a host of other Britons who line up for the first British-based world ranking event of the season, the North West Challenge, which begins on Friday at South Ribble Tennis Centre near Preston.  Hunt was runner-up in the women's singles at the North West Challenge, another ITF Futures Series event, in 2010.  
 
 

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