Week 46 - Greece F19 ($10,000) - Heraklion (hard)

paulisi · Tennis legend

RE: Week 46 - Greece F19 ($10,000) - Heraklion (hard)

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

And the boys' week has just got better - & this time they're both s biggrin :

Final: (4) Luke Bambridge & Oli Golding CR 1562 (666+896) defeated (3) Andreas Mies & Oscar Otter (GER/GER) CR 1088 (559+529) by 3 & 5

Four aces & seven double faults: wonder who served which! wink

paulisi · Tennis legend

Another win for Oli - cracking week.

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

And to cap off and awesome week for British Men's Tennis, Oli and Luke seal the doubles win as well winning 6-3 7-5

steven · Tennis legend

As well as capping off an excellent week on Crete, Luke & Oli's win means (counting individual winners, i.e. all-GB wins as 2) GB have a century of doubles title winners in ATP-ranked events for the first time I can remember

Obviously total title figures aren't that meaningful without a split between tournament levels (in particular, the increase in the number of 10Ks in the UKs accounts for part of the change), but the jump this year has been massive:

2008 - 31 ATP-ranked doubles titles (47 winners)
2009 - 37 ATP-ranked doubles titles (62 winners)
2010 - 27 ATP-ranked doubles titles (42 winners)
2011 - 44 ATP-ranked doubles titles (73 winners)
2012 - 41 ATP-ranked doubles titles (63 winners)
2013 - 61 ATP-ranked doubles titles (101 winners)

Jan · Hall of fame

Brilliant news!

DWH · Club Coach

A few photos of Oli, Luke, Liam and Mark here...

http://www.helleniczeustennis.com/tournament/tournament-photos/3rd-helleniczeus-itf-pro-circuit-14oct-17nov.aspx

under Men F19 and Luke and Oli as doubles runner ups in Men F18

steven · Tennis legend

All but one of tomorrow's double-figure singles rises for Brits in tomorrow's (25 Nov) rankings are a result of this tournament (the exception is James Ward up 10 to 162 after Toyota)

- Oli rises 74 places to 482
- Liam rises 21 places to 518

Those two have more to add on Monday week, obviously - in Oli's case, a lot more!

- Luke rises 49 places to 780 (and 76 places to a new doubles career high of 547)

... which means he finally takes out his December 2012 career high and becomes the *51st* Brit to hit at least one new ATP singles career high this year. 54 Brits have made new doubles career highs too.