Joe Bone and Will Fortune of Harrow made the most of their home court advantage to beat Cheltenhams James Rock and Sam Mason, 18/13,15/9,15/9,15/8 in the 1st pairs match. Bone ,runner up in last seasons Foster Cup and winner of the colts[under 16] singles in 2002 was the dominant player producing good service runs when it most mattered.

He started the second game in the same vein to go into a 4/0 lead. By now the rallies were fast and furious with all four players seemingly content to sacrifice accuracy for pace and a good number of unforced errors ensued, both in the course of the rallies and on first service. Harrow were always on top in this game ,leading 11/5 and although the Cheltonians pegged them back to 9/11, they were unable to win another point and Bone once more served out for the game which Harrow took 15/9.

Harrow threatened to run away with the third game taking an 8/0 lead in their second run of serve. Cheltenham stuck to their task however and pegged them back to level the score at 9/9, at which point a rush of blood caused successive double faults by Rock and Mason and although they gamely put out Bone and Fortune for the loss of only one point, a great return of serve by Fortune, who was by now finding his game abruptly ended their resistance and the Harrovians took the game 15/9.