LOUISE Hunt’s quest for a first ITF 1 Series doubles title came to an end when the British No 3 and Japan’s Kanako Domori were beaten in the women’s doubles final at the South Africa Open Wheelchair Tennis Championships in Sun City.
Second seeds Hunt and Domori were beaten 6-0, 6-2 by German top seeds Sabine Ellerbrock and Katharina Kruger, Ellerbrock completing a title double on the day having earlier won the women’s singles final after defeating Hunt in the quarter-finals.
Hunt and fellow Briton Gordon Reid, a men’s singles quarter-finalist in Sun City, now join up with the rest of Great Britain’s eleven-strong squad selected by the Tennis Foundation for the 2011 World Team Cup, which begins on Monday.
The World Team Cup is the International Tennis Federation’s annual flagship wheelchair tennis team event.
The opening ceremony for the Davis and Fed Cup-style competition takes place on Sunday evening at the University of Pretoria, where play is scheduled to start on Monday morning.
Great Britain’s men’s team are the third seeds for their event, having finished fifth and fourth in World Group 1 in the last two years. Great Britain’s women’s and junior teams are also both the number three seeds for their respective events, while Great Britain’s quad team are seconds seed behind the United States in the quad event.
Great Britain is one of 34 nations across five world group events contesting the 2011 World Team Cup, with the men’s competition split into World Group 1 and World Group 2, both containing 16 nations.
