TENNIS star Peter Norfolk won his third NEC Wheelchair Tennis Masters in Amsterdam – and is set to finish 2010 as the year-end world No 1 quad singles player for the sixth time in eight seasons.
The Briton defeated American David Wagner 6-3, 7-6(4) in the final to secure his third NEC Masters crown since 2006.
Tennis Foundation national programme coach Stuart Wilkinson said: “Peter battled hard after a less than ideal preparation for this event, but stayed mentally tough to remain unbeaten. It was a really great effort and much deserved.”
Meanwhile, Lucy Shuker took sixth place in the women’s singles for the second time in three years.
After recording a first-time victory against world No 4 Jiske Griffioen, of the Netherlands, Shuker narrowly missed out on a place in the semi-finals and took on Belgium’s Annick Sevenans in the fifth and six place play-off.
The contest was an exact repeat of the fifth and sixth place play-off in 2008 and the result proved to be the same as Sevenans prevailed in three close sets, 7-5, 2-6, 4-6.
Elsewhere, Kevin Simpson retained his men’s singles title at the Beit Halochem wheelchair tennis tournament in Israel, giving the Scot his third ITF Futures titles since September.
After a first round bye, top seed Simpson won all three of his matches against Israeli opposition in straight sets, clinching the title with a narrow 7-6(3), 6-4 victory over second seed Asaaf Stokol to maintain his ranking on the fringes of the world’s top 40.
Simpson is now set to end his season on the 2010 NEC Wheelchair Tennis Tour at next month’s Prague Cup Czech Indoor.
