UK Pro League joy for Anton

Anton Matusevich reigned supreme once again at the UK Pro League but insists there are still plenty of improvements to be made to his tennis.

Sevenoaks’ Matusevich is just 19 but is constantly proving himself to be up there with Britain’s best after winning Week 3 of the tournament in Loughborough.

He did so in style too - winning all five of his pool games, and then the semi-final and final, without even dropping a set at the Dan Maskell Tennis Centre.

That came to a thrilling conclusion with a 7-5, 6-1 victory over Henry Patten. “I was very happy the way I played, and was playing better tennis than in the second week,” he said. “Congratulations to Henry in making the final, that’s a great achievement.

“It was awesome, I’ve really enjoyed it here.”

The season-long competition involves players competing in a round robin format in eight individual qualifying weeks, with the weekend play-offs then giving them the opportunity to accumulate ranking points to seal qualification for November’s Finals Week.

Matusevich claimed a thirdplace finish in Week 1 of the competition to rack up 12 ranking points and a maximum haul of 18 in Weeks 2 and 3 has catapulted him up the table.

“Week 1, you’re panicking a little bit, as top seed having not played in these events before,” he added.

“There was less panicking, less talking for me, I was a bit more calm and composed and stopped thinking about the scoreline.”

With a prize fund of around £500k and Broadcast live on BT Sport, the UK Pro League is the only place where the British player group come together to compete across the full year.