one-day tennis clinic.

Their trip here may also coincide with an exhibition match against another doubles team on the ATP Tour, organiser Alec Anderson revealed yesterday.

"It's still too early to tell, but we're hoping the exhibition will take place,'' Anderson said.

Anderson, tournament director for the XL Tennis Classic last December, said Connell, of Saskatchewan, Canada, and Galbraith, of Tacoma, Washington, are conducting the clinic primarily because they were forced to withdraw from the Bermuda tournament at the last minute when the US player came down with a bad case of the flu.

The pair, who began playing together in 1993 and were ranked number one at the end of last season, have continued to click this year with a victory a few weeks ago over Byron Black of Zimbabwe and Jonathan Stark of the US in the Newsweek Champions Cup at Indian Wells, California. Black and Stark are ranked number two on the ATP charts.

Connell and Galbraith have also reached two finals, losing in January to Americans Jared Palmer and Patrick McEnroe at Auckland, New Zealand, and American David Adams and Russian Andrei Olhovskiy at Stuttgart in February.

During the recently concluded Lipton Championships, the pair tumbled out of the event in the second round after losing to American Steve DeVries and David Macpherson of Australia.

The clinic is expected to run several hours with junior players from the Bermuda Lawn Tennis Association's Junior Development programme being invited to participate.

During the XL Classic more than 80 youths were involved in a similar clinic, which was co-ordinated by juniors head coach David Lambert and featured instruction from touring pros Patrick McEnroe and Bryan Shelton and Bermuda's Donald Evans.

"This is something that stays with these kids forever,'' said Lambert. "They get an opportunity to get close to people they see on television and who they admire. And they say to themselves, `I want to be as good as they are.' It's such a thrill for them to be on the same court with these pros.''