Tennis
Event
Rhine-Ruhr 2025 FISU World University Games Summer
16 Jul 2025
-27 Jul 2025
Germany, Rhine-Ruhr
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Tennis a ticket to Harvard for Swiss champion
Summer Games
7 August 2023
Henry von der Schulenburg (Switzerland) celebrates after winning the men’s singles title “I wouldn’t have gotten into Harvard without tennis,” said men’s singles champion Henry Von Der Schulenburg of Switzerland. “You have to have good grades and SAT scores. But not as high as if you didn’t play sports. That’s why it helped me so […]
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Team support, friendship leads to the golden comeback
Summer Games
5 August 2023
For the first 20 minutes of Saturday’s women’s doubles tennis final, it didn’t look like top-seeded Wu Fang-hsien and Liang En-shuo were going to be crowned Chengdu FISU World University Games champions. After a disastrous start, the Chinese Taipei duo was down two breaks and 5-0 against the crowd favorites, China’s Jiang Xianyu and Guo […]
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World University Games medallist wins Australian Open doubles
Tennis
3 February 2020
When Britain’s Joe Salisbury won the Australian Open men’s doubles title with Rajeev Ram on Sunday, fans of university sport would have found the name familiar. Joe Salisbury and Darren Walsh, gold medallists in the men’s doubles at Gwangju 2015Salisbury, who was ranked outside the world’s top 100 two years ago, will now rise […]
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10 years after Universiade gold, Russian tennis player still cherishes the experience
Tennis
17 September 2019
The Summer Universiade holds a special place in the heart of five-time medalist Ksenia Lykina, a tennis player from Kazan, Russia. Lykina took the court in 2009 in Belgrade, 2011 in Shenzhen, and 2015 in Gwangju, coming away with an impressive haul of two gold and three bronze medals. “I was honoured to […]
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Japan and Chinese Taipei win women's and men's singles titles
Tennis
12 July 2019
Chun-Hsin Tseng takes the men’s singles title and Naho Sato the women’s singles gold. Yana Sizikova and Ivan Gakhov of Russia withstood a final set tiebreak against Czech Republic to take home the mixed doubles title NAPOLI, 13 July – The nine days of the tennis event at Napoli 2019 culminated with the finals in men’s […]
