Team GB At The World Team Cup
Lucy Shuker helped the GB women to an opening win
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Great Britain made a winning start to the 25th Invacare World Team Cup in Nottingham with victories in the men’s, women’s, quad and junior tennis events.
The men’s team beat Italy 2-1 to secure a quarter-final on Wednesday against the top seeds from the Netherlands.
The women’s team of Jordanne Whiley, Lucy Shuker and Louise Hunt defeated Spain 3-0 and will play the United States in the last eight.
The quad team, led by Paralympic champion Peter Norfolk, beat Sweden.
Norfolk eased to a comfortable 6-2 6-0 win over Johan Andersson while Jamie Burdekin came from 3-0 and 4-2 down in the first set of the opening rubber to defeat Sweden’s Anders Hard 7-5 6-0.
Burdekin and Andrew Lapthorne clinched the doubles to give GB a 3-0 win in their first round-robin game and they next face Italy, who lost 2-1 to Israel in their opener.
Dermot Bailey, Philip Cochrane and Josh Steels also gave Britain a winning start in the junior event, Bailey won his singles on his World Team Cup debut and later pairing up with Steels, another debutant, to win the doubles and complete another 3-0 victory.
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