Nottingham Trophy (tennis)

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The Nottingham Trophy (formerly known as the Aegon Trophy) was an annual tennis tournament played in Nottingham, England. The tournament was part of the ATP Challenger Tour and the International Tennis Federation (ITF Women's Circuit) as a $75,000 event. The tournament's key sponsor was Dutch insurance firm Aegon. The tournament was held at the end of May before the main tour's grass-court season starts.

Nottingham Trophy
Tournament information
Event nameNottingham Trophy (2021)
Aegon Trophy (2009–14)
LocationNottingham, United Kingdom
VenueNottingham Tennis Centre
SurfaceGrass
WebsiteOfficial website
ATP Tour
CategoryATP Challenger Tour
Draw32S/32Q/16D/4Q
Prize money€64,000
WTA Tour
CategoryITF Women's World Tennis Tour
Draw32S/32Q/16D
Prize money$100,000+H

In 2021, an ATP Challenger Tour and ITF Women's World Tennis Tour event was held in Nottingham, under the name Nottingham Trophy. This event was supposed to be held as the Ilkley Trophy, but moved to Nottingham due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Location edit

The tournament is held annually at the Nottingham Tennis Centre[1] within the University Park area of Nottingham.

History edit

The city used to hold an ATP Tour event, the Nottingham Open; however, due to its failure to attracted big names the tournament was merged with the women's Eastbourne International event in 2009.[2] It was merged with Eastbourne due to the LTA wanting to attract an umbrella sponsor and a younger audience to Eastbourne.[3] However, in December 2008, it was announced that Nottingham would take over from Surbiton, in hosting the grass court ATP Challenger and ITF event. It started in 2009, replacing the Surbiton Trophy due to the renovation of the facilities that had been undertaken at the Nottingham Tennis Centre.[4][5] The tournament moved back to Surbiton for the 2015 season. A new WTA International competition commenced on 8 June 2015 instead.

Past finals edit

Men's singles edit

Year Champion Runner-up Score
2021   Alex Bolt   Kamil Majchrzak 4–6, 6–4, 6–3
2015–2020 Not held
2014   Marcos Baghdatis   Marinko Matosevic 6–4, 6–3
2013   Matthew Ebden   Benjamin Becker 7–5, 4–6, 7–5
2012   Benjamin Becker   Dmitry Tursunov 4–6, 6–1, 6–4
2011   Gilles Müller   Matthias Bachinger 7–6(7–4), 6–2
2010   Ričardas Berankis   Go Soeda 6–4, 6–4
2009   Brendan Evans   Ilija Bozoljac 6–7(4–7), 6–4, 7–6(7–4)

Women's singles edit

Year Champion Runner-up Score
2021   Alison Van Uytvanck   Arina Rodionova 6–0, 6–4
2015–2020 Not held
2014   Kristýna Plíšková   Zarina Diyas 6–2, 3–6, 6–4
2013   Petra Martić   Karolína Plíšková 6–3, 6–3
2012   Urszula Radwańska   Coco Vandeweghe 6–1, 4–6, 6–1
2011   Eleni Daniilidou   Olga Govortsova 1–6, 6–4, 6–2
2010   Elena Baltacha   Carly Gullickson 6–2, 6–2
2009   Maria Elena Camerin   Stefanie Vögele 6–2, 4–6, 6–1

Men's doubles edit

Year Champions Runners-up Score
2021   Marc Polmans
  Matt Reid
  Benjamin Bonzi
  Antoine Hoang
6–4, 4–6, [10–8]
2015–2020 Not held
2014   Chris Guccione
  Rajeev Ram
  Colin Fleming
  Andre Sá
6–7(2–7), 6–2, [11–9]
2013   Jamie Murray
  John Peers
  Ken Skupski
  Neal Skupski
6–2, 6–7(3–7), [10–6]
2012   Treat Conrad Huey
  Dominic Inglot
  Jonathan Marray
  Frederik Nielsen
6–4, 6–7(9–11), [10–8]
2011   Colin Fleming
  Ross Hutchins
  Dustin Brown
  Martin Emmrich
4–6, 7–6(8–6), [13–11]
2010   Colin Fleming
  Ken Skupski
  Eric Butorac
  Scott Lipsky
7–6(7–3), 6–4
2009   Eric Butorac
  Scott Lipsky
  Colin Fleming
  Ken Skupski
6–4, 6–4

Women's doubles edit

Year Champions Runners-up Score
2021   Monica Niculescu
  Elena-Gabriela Ruse
  Priscilla Hon
  Storm Sanders
7–5, 7–5
2015–2020 Not held
2014   Jocelyn Rae
  Anna Smith
  Sharon Fichman
  Maria Sanchez
7–6(7–5), 4–6, [10–5]
2013   Maria Sanchez
  Nicola Slater
  Gabriela Dabrowski
  Sharon Fichman
4–6, 6–3, [10–8]
2012   Eleni Daniilidou
  Casey Dellacqua
  Laura Robson
  Heather Watson
6–4, 6–2
2011   Kimiko Date-Krumm
  Zhang Shuai
  Raquel Kops-Jones
  Abigail Spears
6–4, 7–6(9–7)
2010   Sarah Borwell
  Raquel Kops-Jones
  Naomi Broady
  Katie O'Brien
6–3, 2–6, [10–7]
2009   Alexa Glatch
  Natalie Grandin
  Eleni Daniilidou
  Rika Fujiwara
6–3, 2–6, [10–7]

References edit

  1. ^ "LTA | AEGON Trophy Day One - Daily Wrap". Archived from the original on 2010-09-14. Retrieved 2011-06-03.
  2. ^ "Sky Sports | Tennis | News | Nottingham Open to be axed". www.skysports.com. Archived from the original on 2008-04-13.
  3. ^ "Wimbledon warm-up event scrapped". 9 April 2008.
  4. ^ "LTA | Nottingham to host AEGON Trophy in 2009". Archived from the original on 2009-11-09. Retrieved 2010-09-17.
  5. ^ "Nottingham to host tennis trophy". 11 December 2008.

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