Great Britain’s men’s and women’s teams for next month’s European Padel Championships in Cagliari, Italy, have been announced by the Lawn Tennis Association.
Eight men and eight women will make wear the Union flag at the championships on 22-27 July at the Tennis Club Cagliari – and Team GB’s performances will decide their qualification for the World Championships, which will commence at the end of October in Qatar.
The Great Britain teams are:
Men’s
Christian Medina-Murphy
Sam Jones
Louie Harris
Nikhil Mohindra
Chris Salisbury
Alfonso Patacho
Frankie Langan
Sandy Farquharson
Coaches: John Leach and Jordi Munoz
Women’s
Tia Norton
Aimee Gibson
Catherine Rose
Lisa Phillips
Abigail Tordoff
Sophia Haine
Victoria Nicholas
Olivia Smith
Coaches: Libby Fletcher and Alvaro Fernandez
The British men will take their place in Cagliari alongside Spain, France, Italy, Sweden, Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Poland and the Netherlands with a further six teams bidding to join them through qualifying events.
In the women’s draw, Great Britain will compete with Spain, France, Italy, Sweden, Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Finland and the Netherlands plus a further six qualifiers.
The format of the tournament will see the nations split into four groups of four teams. After the group stages, the two teams that top each group will advance to the play-offs to determine positions 1-8 while the remaining teams will bid to finish in positions 9-16.
The last European Championships took place in Marbella back in 2021 and saw the GB men’s team finish in sixth place. As a result, the British men enter this year’s Championships as the sixth seeds, meanwhile, the women – who finished in 10th place in 2021 – will arrive as the 10th seeds.
