REIGATE'S Bethany Brookes claimed two titles at the National Deaf Tennis Championships recently, regaining the women's singles title and winning her third women's doubles title.
Nineteen-year-old Brookes faced four opponents in the women's singles, winning her first three matches for the loss of just five games.
After beating former runner-up Alex Simmons 6-2, 6-2, Brookes faced the Oxfordshire player's twin sister and 2005 national champion Beth Simmons in the title decider, earning a 6-2, 6-3 victory to claim her third national title after previous victories in 2010 and 2011.
Brookes finished runner-up in the women's singles in 2012 to seven-time champion Catherine Fletcher, but with Fletcher just concentrating on the doubles events this year the duo paired up to retain their women's doubles National title with ease.
The top seeds, silver medallists in the women's doubles at the 2012 European Deaf Tennis Championships in Koblenz, Germany, retained their National title after two straight sets victories, beating Beth Simmons and Yorkshire's Sophie Paul 6-2, 7-6 in the final.
After previously winning the women's doubles title with Simmons in 2011 it was Brookes's third national women's doubles title.
The only title to elude Brookes this year was the mixed doubles, an event she won in 2010.
Brookes and Purley's Jack Clifton eased into the semi-finals for the loss of just one game before bowing out to second seeds and eventual runners-up Peter Willcox and Beth Simmons.
"I'm really happy to have done so well at the National Championships this year after some tricky matches throughout the weekend, especially on the day of the finals," said Brookes, a first year physiotherapy student at King's College, London.
"I've done a lot of hard work in training since last year and it's good to know it's paid off.
"It was fantastic to be able to reclaim the singles title and to be able to play with Catherine and defend our doubles title."
The 2013 National Deaf Tennis Championships gave players the chance to try and impress ahead of selections for July's 22nd Summer Deaflympics in Sofia, Bulgaria, with the Great Britain Deaf Tennis Team set to be announced in the coming weeks.
