Nice Britain received 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 received the opening singles match towards Finn Broadbent.
“I am actually completely satisfied and really happy with all our efforts this week,” mentioned Bartram.
“It is undoubtedly 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 received 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, to win the bronze with the workforce and bounce again from the frustration of the semi-final towards Brazil,” mentioned 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 workforce competitors, and is the equal of the Davis Cup or Billie Jean King Cup.
The Netherlands additionally received the ladies’s competitors, wherein Britain have been overwhelmed by France within the bronze medal play-off.
Britain’s junior workforce of Ruben Harris and Lucas de Gouveia received gold with each profitable their singles matches within the last towards the USA.
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