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Nottingham Trophy (tennis)

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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

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.

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

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

History

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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

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Men's singles

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

Women's singles

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Year Champion Runner-up Score
2021 Belgium Alison Van Uytvanck Australia Arina Rodionova 6–0, 6–4
2015–2020 Not held
2014 Czech Republic Kristýna Plíšková Kazakhstan Zarina Diyas 6–2, 3–6, 6–4
2013 Croatia Petra Martić Czech Republic Karolína Plíšková 6–3, 6–3
2012 Poland Urszula Radwańska United States Coco Vandeweghe 6–1, 4–6, 6–1
2011 Greece Eleni Daniilidou Belarus Olga Govortsova 1–6, 6–4, 6–2
2010 United Kingdom Elena Baltacha United States Carly Gullickson 6–2, 6–2
2009 Italy Maria Elena Camerin Switzerland Stefanie Vögele 6–2, 4–6, 6–1

Men's doubles

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

Women's doubles

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

References

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  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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