Week 9 - Great Britain F6 ($10,000) - Shrewsbury (Hard)

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

RE: Week 9 - Great Britain F6 ($10,000) - Shrewsbury (Hard)

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

Sadly now confirmed on the ITF scores.

Josh has retired.

Stircrazy · Tennis legend

Two of our boys finally get the better of the Nordic horde! Bambo & Toby s !

Final: Luke Bambridge & Toby Martin CR 1163 (477+686) defeated (2) Isak Arvidsson & Micke Kontinen (SWE/FIN) CR 991 (458+533) by 3 & 4 biggrin

Spectator · All-time great

Fourth doubles title (with four different partners) in 6 months for Mr Bambridge (5th overall - the outlier was in May 2013, also with a different partner), second for Mr Martin. Well done to both.

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-- Edited by Spectator on Friday 28th of February 2014 05:16:31 PM

Jaggy1876 · Grand Slam Champion

When was the last time a futures in Gb men had no Brit in the final must be at least 2 years. I'm sure someone will know.

steven · Tennis legend

Jaggy1876 wrote:
When was the last time a futures in Gb men had no Brit in the final must be at least 2 years. I'm sure someone will know.

More recent than you'd think - Edgbaston early last November, where Grigelis beat de Loore in the final and unseeded James Marsalek was the only British singles semi-finalist. We only had one of the top 4 seeds there though - top seed Marcus, who was beaten by Fitzy in the QFs. There were three other GB seeds - (5) Josh Goodall went out in R1, (6) Tom Farquharson lost to Grigelis in the QFs and (8) Oli Golding, just back from injury, lost to JWH in R1.

You're right that it has been a rare occurrence in the last couple of years though