Both Baker Newman and Philip Major Jr. played their way onto the The Bahamas Lawn Tennis Association’s (BLTA) 2019 Davis Cup team over the weekend. The pair will now team up with the two top Open Nationals finishers (Donte Armbrister and Justin Lunn) to represent The Bahamas in June in Costa Rica. The BLTA hosted […]
The Bahamas Lawn Tennis Association congratulates Bahamian Lauryn Daxon for being recognized as 2nd Team singles and doubles All-Conference for Missouri Valley College. Lauren is a sophmore at Missouri Valley and has had a very successful tennis season. Coming off an injury last year Lauryn has comeback in stellar form. Her team the Missouri Valley College Vikings which were […]
The Bahamas Fed Cup team put on a strong performance yesterday on the clay courts in Lima, Peru, sweeping team Barbados. In the opening singles match of the day, Danielle Thompson set the bar high, defeating Melena Lopez 6-0, 6-0. “I went out there anxious to get all the nerves out and just did what […]
Lee University freshman standout Sierra Donaldson was awarded for her strong play on the clay court this week. On Thursday, she was named as the Gulf South Conference Women’s Tennis Freshman of the week. Donaldson earned the award for going 4-0 last week in matches against West Georgia and Mississippi College. In singles play, Donaldson […]
NASSAU, BAHAMAS – The players representing the country at the 2019 Fed Cup in Lima, Peru appears to be in high spirits ahead of next week’s tournament. Team members Kerrie Cartwright (Player/Coach), Danielle Thompson, and newcomer Sydney Clarke, yesterday, in interviews with Eyewitness Sports, said they look forward to playing together and representing the country […]
NASSAU, BAHAMAS – Bahamas Lawn Tennis Association (BLTA) officials yesterday named both its Davis and Fed Cup Teams. The squads feature a mix of veteran and junior players, which officials think will help produce some surprisingly good results on the circuit. “Due to the debacle we faced during the Giorgio Baldacci tournament, we brought in […]
NASSAU, BAHAMAS – The 2018 Goombay Splash International Tennis Federation (ITF) tournament kicked off yesterday at the National Tennis Center. Both boys’ and girls’ doubles finals will be played on Friday, while the singles finals in each division take place on Saturday. There are athletes from 20 nations competing in this year’s tournament, along with […]
The Impact Tennis Academy (ITA) is working with the Ministry of Education to put tennis in every primary school on the island. (ITA) co-founder Ricardo Demeritte said its initiative is to make tennis a part of the physical education curriculum, which currently only features five sports. “We are looking to reach out to about 113 […]
Sydney Clarke turned in a number of strong performances over the summer in both singles and doubles action, and as a result, was listed as the No. 1 ranked female junior tennis athletes, both nationally and internationally. Clarke played on the International Tennis Federation (ITF) Junior Circuit and came up with two singles wins in […]
Former Morgan State University standout Danielle Thompson to be selected this week as a nominee for the 2018 National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Woman of the Year Award. This year, more than 200,000 women are playing college sports, and the NCAA received a program record of 581 nominations for this prestigious award. Thompson was named […]
Sydney Clarke captured the Tobago Jr. International Tennis Federation (Tournament) girls singles title on Saturday in Trinidad and Tobago, defeating Hannah Chambers from Barbados in two sets (6-0, 7-6). Clarke jumped out to an impressive start, easily winning the first set of the championship match, and managed to come from behind in the second to […]
Sydney Clarke and her partner Tangia Riley-Cordington from Barbados, captured the girls’ doubles title at the Tobago Jr. International Tennis Federation (ITF) in Trinidad and Tobago. The dynamic duo defeated American Sifa Butcher and her partner Ariana Salguiero-Estela from Puerto Rico in three sets: 1-6, 6-4, 10-7. “It was really a long, exhausting match, but […]
The Bahamas women’s national basketball team finished fifth overall at the 2018 Centrobasket Championships in Puerto Rico yesterday. In its final game of the tournament, team Bahamas knocked off Costa Rica for the second time, picking up a 55-49 win. Brea Forbes led The Bahamas with a game-high 16 points. Tracy Lewis added 13 points […]
Local tennis players are on a roll in Trinidad and Tobago, picking up wins in singles action yesterday as the 2018 International Tennis Federation (ITF) Tobago Jr. Championships continued. In girls singles, Sydney Clarke won her quarterfinal match against Sifa Butcher from the United States in two sets (6-3, 6-2). “I felt like I was […]
Local players got off to a good start at the 2018 Tobago Junior International Tennis Federation (ITF) Tournament in Trinidad and Tobago. Sydney Clarke is competing in the girl singles division, while Donte Armbrister is competing in both boys’ singles and doubles competition. In her opener, Clarke defeated Selene Kentish from Antigua and Barbuda in […]
Both Sydney Clark and Donte Armbrister performed well over the weekend at the Coca Cola International Tennis Federation (ITF) Under-18 Tournament in St. Lucia. Clarke was a finalist in both singles and doubles action, picking up wins over opponents from Barbados and the United States. She lost in the final round in two sets to […]
Jacobi Bain captured his first JITIC 16-and-under title in the 2018 COTECC Junior Circuit over the weekend in El Salvador. Coming in as the top seed, Bain came from behind to knock off Christian Winstead 3-6, 6-1, 6-2. Bain also picked up another trophy in the doubles division. Along with his partner John Chin, from […]
Jacobi Bain emerged as the winner of the 2018 JITIC Under-16 boys singles tournament winner. In the final game of the event, Bain knocked off Chris Winstead, from Costa Rica, in three sets, 63-6, 6-2 and 6-1. Bain went undefeated over the course of the three-day event, knocking off Julian Lozano, from Costa Rica, and […]
