Brazilian job gives Josh a fourth title (From Basingstoke Gazette)

Brazilian job gives Josh a fourth title

9:00am Monday 17th August 2009 in

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BASINGSTOKE tennis ace Josh Goodall won his fourth doubles title of the season playing with a brand new partner in a tournament in Brazil.

The British number three teamed up with Australian Samuel Groth in the Campos do Jordao Challenger event in Brasilia.

The British-Aussie combination had a tough draw as they faced the number one seeds Santiago Gonzalez from Mexico and Argentinean Horace Zeballos.

In a titanic encounter, Goodall and Groth won the first set 6-3, lost the second by the same scoreline, before winning the deciding tie-break 10-7.

Their quarter-final game was more straight forward as they saw off local players Marcelo Demoliner and Rudrigo Guidolin 6-2, 7-6.

Then they beat South American pair Juan Pablo Amado and Marcel Felder 6-4, 7-5.

This set up a final showdown with Brazilian number two seeds Rogeric Dutra Da Silva and Julio Silva 7-6, 6-3.

The victory for Goodall came hot on the heels of his success in another Challenger tournament, in Manchester with Jonathan Marray, and he has won in Bangkok and Germany this season.

At the same event, Goodall made it into the second round of the singles as he beat South African Ricardo Siggo 6-2, 6-3, but unfortunately lost to Frenchmen David Guez 7-6, 6-2.

In his latest tournament, also in the capital of Brazil, the Basingstoke ace was forced to retire in his first round match with Felder of Uruguay due to a swollen knee.

Goodall will now return home before gearing up for the qualifying for the US Open, which he has got through before.

Then, in September, he will be hoping to be selected for the Great Britain Davis Cup team to face Poland at Liverpool.