Players Profiles

Rob is our charismatic and dynamic current World Champion, with enormous power and spectacular athleticism. In the World Challenge in May 2004 he equalled Pierre Etchebaster's record of 6 successful defences of the World Championship. In April 2006 Rob continued his dominance of the game by retaining the World Championship crown in defeating Tim Chisholm in two days of the challenge winning 7/0.
In September 2003 he also became the World Champion Doubles holder, partnered by Steve Virgona, winning in Hobart. In September 2005 he retained this title with Steve Virgona at Fontainebleau.  In March 2007 Rob retained this title again partnered by Steve Virgona playing in Boston.
In November 2000, Rob won the "grand slam" (winner of the US, Australian, French and British Opens) - a tremendous achievement!
In November 2001, Rob made history. By winning the British Open he completed the first back to back grand slam. What a fantastic feat - awesome!
By Rob's standards 2003 was a 'lean' year. With no Open title to his name since the Australian Open in 2002. This 'blimp' was rectified with his regaining the British Open title in November 2003.
Following the successful defence of his World Title in Newport in May 2004, Rob went on to retain his US Professional Singles title 2 weeks later. Rob's year has continued from strength to strength; in August 2004 he won the Australian Open title for the 9th time and retained the IRTPA Professional Singles title for the 4th consecutive time.
2005 has saw a good start to the year, Rob won the US Open Singles and Doubles titles (partnered by Ruaraidh Gunn) and has continued by winning The European Open, The Schochet Cup, The Moreton Morrell Centenary. This winning streak came to an abrupt halt at The Australian Open held at Romsey in August 2005 saw Rob lose his Australian title to Steve Virgona. This was followed by a loss in the finals of the Victorian Open to Ruaraidh Gunn. In the 2005 IRTPA Championships where Rob was going for his 5th consecutive win, he retired in the 5th set to Steve Virgona.
2006 has started with mixed results for Rob, he failed to regain the Australian Open title in January but retained the US Open title. Now based up at The Burroughs Club, he is in the World Championship training mode, leading up to the Challenge in April 2006. Again Rob showed his supreme dominance of the sport by retaining his world title winning the required 7 sets of the possible 13 set challenge in two days against Tim Chisholm. Following such an event, it is sometimes difficult to play at such a level so soon afterwards, but Rob in June 2006, has continued at the top level by winning the US Professional Singles for the fourth consecutive year.

2007 again had a mixed start, he failed again to retain the Australian Open title, but repeated his dominance in the US Open by defending his title successfully.  From this tournament Rob went to Boston to defend his World Doubles title successfully, again partnered by Steve Virgona.  In April he won the Premier Division title of the National League, playing for Cambridge with Neil Roxburgh.  This was followed by retaining his title back in the US playing in the Schochet Cup.  In September he retained his French Open title for the fourth consecutive year.