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Mixed bag for Wilts at Deaf Tennis championships
Cathy Graham
Cathy Graham

Cathy Graham and her partner Lewis Fletcher live in Marlborough and are joint head coaches at Ramsbury Tennis Club.

Graham successfully defended her Ladies Singles title, which she collected for the fourth time in total.

In a four-way round robin, she began by beating Oxfordshire's Alex Simmons 7-6, 6-2 in a repeat of the 2003 final.

She then defeated Surrey's Fiona Brookes 6-2, 6-2. Her last roud robin match on Monday was effectively a final, with 2005 champion and 2004 and 2006 runner-up Beth Simmons, the twin sister of Alex Simmons, also undefeated after her first two matches.

But Graham sealed the title with another 6-2, 6-2 victory.

However, Graham and Brookes were runners-up in the Ladies Doubles final, in which they were beaten 6-1, 6-2 by the Simmons sister.

In the Men's Singles, third seed Fletcher began with a 6-0, 6-2 win over Merseyside youngster Shaun O'Brien and then beat Lancashire's Darren O'Donnell 7-5, 6-2.

But Fletcher had to give second best in the semi-finals to champion elect Peter Willcox 6-1, 6-4 before Willcox went on to beat Dan Tunstall in the final.

Dan Tunstall
Dan Tunstall

Fletcher and Tunstall also paired up for the Men's Doubles, the third seeds again losing out in the semi-finals to O'Donnell and Willcox 6-2, 6-3.

All three Wiltshire players were in the Mixed Doubles final, with second seeds Fletcher and Graham prevailing over Tunstall and Alex Simmons 6-3, 6-3.

All three will also hope to now represent Great Britain in the Dresse & Maere Cups, the Davis and Fed Cups of deaf tennis, which takes place in Munich, Germany, at the end of July.

10:14am Wednesday 9th May 2007


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