Lucy's mixed hand

By Paul Carter

Wheelchair tennis star Lucy Shuker, 29, secured the women’s doubles title at the Swiss Open Wheelchair Tennis Championships in Geneva.

The British number one, from Somerset, partnered Korea’s Ju-Yeon Park to win in the women’s doubles, beating top seeds Annick Sevenans and Sharon Walraven 6-4 7-5 to give her her sixth doubles title of 2009.

Earlier in the week, world number ten Shuker had a surprise straight sets loss to Park in the quarter final of the women’s singles, losing to the Korean 7-6 6-3.

This came just two weeks after Shuker had defeated Park in straight sets to take Great Britain into its first ever women’s final at the Invacare World Team Cup, the wheelchair tennis equivalents of the Davis and Fed Cups.

Elsewhere in the competition, Jamie Burdekin and Andrew Lapthorne were in fine form in their first event back on the NEC Wheelchair Tennis Tour since being part of Britain’s World Team Cup-winning quad team in Nottingham a fortnight ago.

Burdekin beat world number three and top seed Johan Andersson 4-6 6-3 6-3 in the quad singles semi-final before eventually losing to Sarah Hunter 3-6 6-0 4-6 in the final.

Burdekin, who teamed up with Lapthorne to finish runner-up in the quad doubles, looks set to return to his career best world ranking of number six after beating Andersson, the Beijing Paralympic silver medallist.