Aegon Trophy

Aegon Trophy
Event nameAegon Trophy
LocationNottingham, United Kingdom
VenueNottingham Tennis Centre
SurfaceGrass
Official website
 ATP World Tour
CategoryATP Challenger Tour
Draw32S/32Q/16D/4Q
Prize Money€64,000
 WTA Tour
CategoryITF Women's Circuit
Draw32S/32Q/16D
Prize Money$75,000

The Aegon Trophy is an annual tennis tournament played in Nottingham, England. The tournament is currently part of the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) Challenger Tour and the International Tennis Federation (ITF) Women's Circuit as a $75,000 event. The tournament's key sponsor is Dutch insurance firm Aegon. The Aegon Trophy and Aegon Nottingham Challenge are the only challenger events to be held on grass. The tournament is held at the end of May before the main tour's grass court season starts.

In 2015, the women's competition will be upgraded to a WTA International tournament with $250,000 in prize money.

Location

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

History

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 new WTA International competition will commence on 8 June 2015.

Past finals

Men's Singles

Year Champion Runner-up Score
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

Year Champion Runner-up Score
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
   ITF $75,000 event   
2011 Greece Eleni Daniilidou Belarus Olga Govortsova 1–6, 6–4, 6–2
   ITF $75,000+H event   
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
   ITF $50,000 event   

Men's Doubles

Year Champions Runners-up Score
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

Year Champions Runners-up Score
2015 TBD
TBD
TBD
TBD
Pending
   WTA International tournament   
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
   ITF 75,000 event   
2011 Japan Kimiko Date-Krumm
China Zhang Shuai
United States Raquel Kops-Jones
United States Abigail Spears
6–4, 7–6(9–7)
   ITF 75,000+H event   
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]
   ITF $50,000 event   

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