BURDEROP husband and wife Lewis and Catherine Fletcher came away from the National Deaf Tennis Championships with two titles each after victories in the men’s and women’s doubles and the mixed doubles.

For the joint head coaches at Ramsbury Tennis Club, it was the latest in a long line of successes at the national championships, which were held at Gosling High Performance Centre in Welwyn Garden City.

Lewis partnered Devon’s Peter Willcox to their fourth men’s doubles national title together since 2005, the top seeds dropping just four games in their three round robin matches after beating runners-up Nicholas Ansell and Jack Clifton 6-2, 6-2 in the decisive match.

However, Willcox denied Lewis a second successive men’s singles title after reversing the result of the 2012 final, in which Lewis beat Willcox 6-3, 6-3.

This year, after a comfortable passage to the semi-finals, second seed Lewis beat former two-time champion and third seed Daniel Tunstall 6-2, 7-5 to set up a rematch against Willcox, but the top seed gained the crucial points to claim his eleventh national title 6-3, 6-4.

With seven-time national women’s singles champion Catherine just concentrating on the doubles events, the two-time Paralympic Deaflympic Games medallist claimed her seventh women’s doubles title and her second in succession partnering Surrey’s Bethany Brookes.

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 Oxfordshire’s Beth Simmons and Yorkshire’s Sophie Paul 6-2, 7-6 (5) in the final.

After completing the 2012 national championships with the men’s and women’s singles and doubles titles, but narrowly missing out in the mixed doubles, Lewis and Catherine turned the tables on second seeds and defending champions Wilcox and Simmons in thrilling style in this year’s mixed doubles final.

They justified their top seeding to earn a narrow 7-6 (2), 6-7 (2), (10-7) victory after a deciding tie-break.

“We’re delighted to have come away with three titles between us,” said Catherine, recently appointed by the Tennis Foundation as Great Britain deaf tennis coach.

“It was a great match in the mixed doubles final and we’re thrilled to have won. From another perspective it was also fantastic to see more juniors participating in the event, as was it to see some more familiar faces. We’re very excited about the future of deaf tennis.”

The championships gave players the chance to try and impress ahead of selections for July’s Summer Deaflympics in Sofia, Bulgaria, with the Great Britain team set to be announced in the coming weeks.