Roger Marshall and Bill Goodman, virtual unknowns and playing together for the first time, pulled off one of the biggest upsets in the history of the Coral Beach Club Invitational tennis tournament on Saturday when they defeated the heavily favoured and top seeded Bermudian pair of James Collieson and Michael Way ,6-4, 6-4, to capture the Men's Open doubles crown.

"It was simply unbelievable," shouted Goodman of Greenwich, Connecticut, when it was all over. "We just played a steady game and allowed them, for the most part, to commit the mistakes."

It was a final in which the Way and Collieson were always fighting from behind, and never up front where they should have been. "We just couldn't seem to get going," admitted Collieson, who will now take a few days away from the sport before leaving to rejoin a satellite tour in the US. "Losing was a bitter disappointment, but that's tennis."

Meanwhile, Kelly Holland and Gill Butterfield came from a set down to defeat Deborah Cheng and Laverne Stowe 5-7, 6-3, 6-4 to take the Ladies Doubles Open crown. It was the second defeat in a row for Cheng who, with Stuart Smith, earlier lost to Holland and her partner Mark Cordeiro, 7-5, 7-5 in the Mixed Doubles final.

The turning point came in the fourth game of the second set. Holland and Butterfield were trailing 0-3, 15-40 on Holland's serve, just one point from going 4-0 down. They forced their opponents to commit four straight errors to win the game which seemed to take the wind out of the sails of Cheng and Smith, who lost seven of the next nine games, and with it the title.

In another come-from-behind effort, Butterfield and Gelhay lost the first set to Laverne Stowe and Barbara Lambert 6-3, but roared back to take the Ladies 40 doubles title by winning the next two sets 6-3, 6-2.

Earl Leader and Eldon Daniels exacted sweet revenge on the veteran pair of Norberto Herrero and Gary Hogarth to take the Men's Doubles title with a convincing 6-2, 6-2 victory. The pair had earlier lost to Herrero and Hogarth in the Men's Open Doubles, but on Saturday Leader and Daniels played as if they were on a mission.