World Crew Cup: Nice Britain win males’s and quad bronze medals in wheelchair tennis occasion

World Crew Cup: Nice Britain win males’s and quad bronze medals in wheelchair tennis occasion


Nice Britain gained bronze medals within the males’s and quad occasions on the wheelchair tennis World Crew Cup in Turkey.

Ben Bartram and Dahnon Ward beat France pair Geoffrey Jasiak and Gaetan Menguy respectively within the singles of the lads’s bronze medal play-off.

Greg Slade and Gary Cox beat Australia within the deciding doubles to complete third within the quad competitors in Antalya.

Australia pressured a decider when Benjamin Wenzel beat Andy Lapthorne after Slade had gained the opening singles match towards Finn Broadbent.

“I am actually glad and really happy with all our efforts this week,” stated Bartram.

“It is positively a really deserved bronze medal.”

Japan, who beat Britain within the semi-finals, defeated Chile within the last to win the lads’s title.

The quad title was gained by the Netherlands, who beat Brazil within the last. Britain misplaced 2-0 to Brazil within the semi-finals on Saturday.

“I am delighted to have come by means of, to win the bronze with the group and bounce again from the frustration of the semi-final towards Brazil,” stated Slade, who, like Cox, secured his first World Crew Cup medal.

“We actually collected ourselves and went after it and performed some actually good tennis.”

The World Crew Cup is wheelchair tennis’ greatest group competitors, and is the equal of the Davis Cup or Billie Jean King Cup.

The Netherlands additionally gained the ladies’s competitors, through which Britain had been crushed by France within the bronze medal play-off.

Britain’s junior group of Ruben Harris and Lucas de Gouveia gained gold with each successful their singles matches within the last towards the USA.

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