What is the European Collegiate Tennis Association?

The European Collegiate Tennis Association (ECTA) was formed in 2007 by Head Tennis Coaches, Jamie Pilkington (Dublin City University, Ireland) and Euan McGinn (University of Stirling, Scotland) with the intention of providing European University tennis players opportunities to compete both in a team and in an individual environment across Europe. To achieve this objective, ECTA wants to increase the number of appropriate opportunities tennis players have to participate in Europe. ECTA is a registered non profit organisation.

Competition

Since 2007 ECTA has organized and sanctioned several events across Europe such as the first ever European University Men’s Tennis League in 2007 and 2008 and the ECTA European Women’s University Challenge which is to become the ECTA European Women’s league in 2009. Along with the Men’s and Women’s University Leagues there are also plans to have a European University Singles Clay Court Championship. This event is to become one of the main selection criteria for the European University Squad which is scheduled to play against the US Collegiate Team in 2010.

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Moscow crowned Men's Barclay's ECTA European League Champions

The chat all weekend at the National Tennis Centre in Roehampton had been that ECTA tennis 'mattered' - and the men from Moscow and Montpelier were showing very clearly that it did matter - as their final went right down to the wire ... right down to the doubles match in the tie break shoot out ... when finally Moscow sealed the match to take the title of ECTA Champions.

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Barclays ECTA 2008 European Men's Qualifier

From the weekend of 10-12th of October 2008 ECTA kicked off the first ever Barclay’s European University Tennis League. The qualifying round this year comprised of 4 round robin leagues that took place in Stirling, Dublin, Montpellier and Podgorica. The top 8 teams that made it through were Bath, Dublin City University, Montpellier, Russia State University, Leeds Metropolitan, Edinburgh, Stirling and Warsaw School of Social Psychology.

Women's ECTA European University Challenge

Meanwhile, Loughborough University simultaneously hosted the first ever Barclay's ECTA Women's European University Challenge. This was a play-off between 5 top Universities Loughborough I and II, Dublin City University, Stirling and Bath. Loughborough as current British Champions won out after 3 tough days of competition.

In 2009, following suit with the Barclay's Men's University League, ECTA will be launching the Barclay's ECTA Women's European University Challenge.