Gabb Rankings Boost After Late Season Surge

Monday, November 04, 2013

Somerset’s Richard Gabb has seen his ATP world ranking soar on the back of two brilliant performances in Turkey and Greece Futures events on the ITF Pro Circuit.

The 21-year-old reached career-best rankings of 410 in singles and 294 in doubles after he finished as runner-up in both the singles and doubles draws of the F36 Turkey event in early September, a semi-final finish in the singles draw of the F14 Greece event as well as a doubles runners-up place and a singles title victory at the F15 Greece event in Marathon, Athens, the following week.

Gabb, from Street, beat Theodoros Angelinos 7-6(5), 6-2, who is ranked inside the top 300, in the final of the F15 Greece singles to win his first Futures singles title of the season. Gabb also finished as runner-up in the doubles draw alongside Germany’s Tobias Simon. The pair lost to Italian duo Claudio Grassi and Riccardo Ghedin 6-3, 7-5 in the title match.

The Street player’s most recent doubles victory came in early September at the F35 Turkey event in Antalya-Belconti . Alongside his regular partner Marucs Daniell, New Zealand, Gabb won his 8th doubles title after a 6-2, 7-5 win over Matteo Marfia and Francesco Vilardo of Italy.

Gabb is now ranked as the British number 14 and a continuation of his current form could see him rise higher.

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