Island development officer Craig Gasgoine and Yorkshire’s Ben Barlow won the senior team doubles, justifying their No 1 seeding by beating Suffolk’s Ryan and Jake Collins 3-1 in the final. The winners had knocked out Jersey’s Polish duo Marcin Jurkewicz and Gregor Frankowski in the semi-finals, a stage also reached by Islanders Paul Marshall and Trevor Lefebvre.
Eugene Ellis and Bruce Gallichan won the vets team event, beating fellow Islanders Bobby Vincent and Kevin Allen 3-0 in the final, while in the junior team final Jersey’s Josh Band and Chris Corfield went down 3-0 to the Collins brothers. Play continues over the weekend.
