Team AEGON players selected for Commonwealth Games

Eight Team AEGON players will have the honour of representing their home countries at the Commonwealth Games in Delhi, taking place from 3 to 14 October 2010.

Scotland

Scotland will be represented by British number one and world number 55 Elena Baltacha, and doubles specialist Colin Fleming. The Team AEGON players will be joined by Mhairi Brown, Jocelyn Rae and Jamie Murray.

Fleming commented: ‘I’m really proud to be representing Scotland at tennis. There are not many opportunities to do that so it’s a great honour for me. I can’t wait to get out to India and get involved in the whole experience.’

England

Commonwealth Games England have selected four Team AEGON players in James Ward (pictured here in action at the AEGON Championships), doubles specialist Ken Skupski (Colin Fleming’s regular partner), Ross Hutchins and Katie O’Brien. The rest of the team will be represented by Richard Bloomfield, Sarah Borwell and Anna Smith.

Wales

Team AEGON player Josh Milton, the winner of this year’s Pro-Series event at Roehampton, will represent Wales.

Channel Islands

Heather Watson (pictured here at the AEGON International) will be in action for the Channel Islands alongside Patrick Ogier and Dominic McLuskey. Team AEGON star Watson will be hoping to build on her performance at the 2008 Commonwealth Youth Games, where she won the gold medal, to be among the medallists at the senior competition.

Watson couldn’t hide her excitement: ‘I’m very excited to be playing in the Commonwealth Games. Most people just think I’m from England, but I’m from Guernsey and I love representing the island, particularly at such an important event.’

More British success

August has been a good month for Team AEGON and AEGON FutureStars with some great results at the AEGON British Junior Nationals. And British Junior number one Oliver Golding achieved an outstanding victory at the Youth Olympics in Singapore, beating world number one Marton Fucsovics convincingly in the first round.

Team AEGON are the top British players selected by the LTA to receive the highest levels of funding and support. AEGON FutureStars is made up of the UK’s most talented emerging players. Members of AEGON FutureStars have been selected by the LTA to receive specialist support to help them make the most of their talent.
 

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