No 1 seeds Alister Robinson and Guy Barker won their second Lacoste Amateur Doubles at the Queens Club, beating the No 2 seeded pair Tim Cockroft and Guy Smith-Bingham by 4 games to 3, 15/9,7/15,6/15,15/9,14/18,15/9,15/3. This was a match enlivened by extremely hard hitting and some outstanding retrieving by all the players, which kept both partisan and neutral spectators gripped from start to finish.

Robinson and Barker had the easier path to the final beating Charlie Danby and Neal Bailey in four games in their semi-final 15/6,15/5,15/9,15/11, whereas Cockroft and Smith-Bingham had had a very tight match with John Prenn and Harry Foster winning in seven games 7/15, 15/12,15/11 9/15,9/15,15/12,15/9. This was a match that Prenn and Foster looked like winning at three games to two and 12/8 ahead in the sixth game. In the first game they had won twelve points in a row when John was serving.

The first game was won comfortably by the No1 seeds and indeed Cockroft and Smith-Bingham did not really hit their stride until they were 3/11 down,winning six points but Barker, as he was to do throughout the match, steadiied the favourites, and coming in second hand at 11/9 won the four points needed to give them game including two service aces.

The next two games were always dominated by the second seeds, they reached 13/1 in two service runs and in the second game and in the third won the game in four. The fourth game was close to 9/9 but again Barker stepped up to serve out as second hand.The fifth game produced the best from all four players with Ali and Tim dominating the front of the court but Tim and Guy having set 5 at 13 all made no mistakes to take the game