Profile
 |
Country: |
England |
| Date of birth: |
2nd October 1979 |
| Place of birth: |
Stamford, England |
| Place of residence: |
Stamford, England |
| Marital status: |
Single |
| Highest World ranking: |
No.4 (March 2003) |
| World Tour titles: |
5 |
| World Tour finals: |
14 |
| National titles: |
British National Champion 2006 |
Tania Bailey is a professional squash player from Stamford, England, the 2006 British Open Champion, English No.1 and Commonwealth Games Silver and Bronze Medallist.
Tania has achieved a highest WISPA World Ranking of four and a highest English Ranking of one. Tania has won four WISPA World Tour titles; the Vassar College Class of 92 (2006), WISPA International Challenge (2000), Duffield Morson International (1999), Midland Open (1999).
In 1997 Tania returned from Rio De Janeiro as World Junior Champion and in 2002 was a British Open and US Open finalist, however continuity was hampered by a catalogue of illnesses and injuries that prevented her from competing.
However in 2005 her return to good health enabled her to climb back towards single figures in the world rankings and in 2006 was a member of the England Women’s World Team Championship winning side in Edmonton, Canada, a bronze medallist at the Commonwealth Games in Melbourne, Australia and the winner of the British National Championships.
Tania, who is managed by internationalSPORTgroup™, is part of the England Squash World Class Performance Programme, based in Stamford, Lincoln, England.
Tania’s principal sponsors are Harrow (rackets, clothing and equipment & luggage) , e-squash™ (string).
Biography
In 1997 Tania travelled to Rio de Janeiro and returned to England as world junior champion. She has also reached the final of the British Open and has been as high as four in the world rankings. However continuity has been hampered by a catalogue of illnesses and injuries that have prevented her from competing a great deal in recent years.
However, as 2005 progressed her good health enabled her to climb back towards single figure ranking. A win over world champion Vanessa Atkinson in the last sixteen of the Qatar Airways Challenge in April (where she reached the semis), and a similar finish at the Seattle Open in September where she again reached the last four helped her cause.
Since then she has continued to move strongly forward, most recently winning the Vassar College Class of 1932, dispelling any thoughts of stopping playing that were forming during the worst of her periods of illness and injury.
To prove beyond doubt that she was back to her best at the CIMB Malaysian Open in July 2006 she stormed to the final leaving Vanessa Atkinson and Natalie Grinham in her wake before falling to Nicol David in a five game final thriller.
Two months later she was a member of the England side which won the Women's World Team Championship in Canada, which she followed up by overturning the seedings to reach the final of the Cathay Pacific Swiss Privilege Hong Kong Open.
With 2006 also seeing her win the British National title and taking number one spot in the English rankings too, it is clear that her sustained good health is paying great dividends on court and she is certainly poised to keep her upward curve.