Kingston's John Parfitt completed his first full season on the international NEC Wheelchair Tennis Tour on Saturday with his first quad doubles title at the Prague Cup Czech Indoor after losing out to his doubles partner in the quad singles semi-finals.
Thirty-one-year-old Parfitt looks set to end 2009 with quad singles and quad doubles rankings inside the world's top 30 after his latest success at the ITF 3 Series tournament.
Parfitt and his Middlesex-based training partner Andrew Lapthorne comfortably won their three round-robin matches in the quad doubles, dropping just five games in their opening two matches against French and Polish pairings and ending with a 6-1, 6-2 victory over Sweden's Anders Hard and Austria's Peter Tatschl.
In the quad singles, Parfitt, who trains at the National Tennis Centre in Roehampton, began superbly, beating Polish third seed Radoslaw Rudzki 6-2, 6-2. However, despite the Surrey man returning serve superbly and taking compatriot Lapthorne to deuce in nine game in the semi-finals, the higher ranked Lapthorne prevailed 6-1, 6-3 en route to lifting the title.
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