Association's National Closed Championships at Elliott Primary School gymnasium on Saturday.

The 33-year-old Frost needed little energy on his way to the singles title, being awarded victory by default when his opponent Dave Waltham showed up late.

In the doubles final, the Englishman teamed up with Monique Ternier of Canada to beat the local duo of Kacy King and Alan Webbe in four games -- 21-10, 21-23, 21-11, 21-11.

Frost, who has made quite an impact in local table tennis since his arrival here five years ago, has always done well in the competition. So far he has won the singles title twice and doubles three times.

While giving away the first game, King and Webbe were much more competitive in the second which they won by a 23-21 score.

That setback only made Frost and Ternier settle down and they roared back with a vengeance to take the final two games by convincing margins.

The champions later gave credit to their opponents, admitting that it took them awhile to deal with King's looping game.

"We played a pretty good game to win the doubles final,'' said Frost. "We had to stop Kacy from looping them. We managed to do that in the first game, but in the second he was more successful and they beat us.

"We actually thought we had the second game sewn up, but they came back and won it. In the third and fourth games we managed to stop Kacy, and by doing so we came out winners.'' According to Frost, Ternier played a superb role in the triumph.

"Actually both of them (King and Webbe) were playing very well in the second game and we were mainly trying to keep the ball on the table,'' said the only woman on the local table tennis scene.

She added: "Every now and then I was trying to make the ball go a little faster and Nick was telling me to slow down. I think it was a good thing at the time.'' Despite their fine performances, Frost still regarded their play in the quarter-final and semifinal as being far more formidable.

"Yes, we played much better then. We knocked out the number one seeds in the semifinal and number three seeds in the quarter-finals,'' he said.

In the Master's final, Dave Waltham defeated Rawle Fredericks 8-21, 21-18, 21-10, 21-16.

At a hearing last week, the Bermuda Table Tennis Association awarded Cleveland County the default over Wolves because of the latter's delay to advise the league of their request for a postponement.

The Challenge Cup semifinal between the West Indies Association and Christian Rovers will be moved from March 1 to March 8. Other games have BAA at home to Southampton Princess I and Eastern Stars at home to Cleveland County.

BTTA President Mansfield Smith announced yesterday that the arrival of the father-and-son team of George and Anthony Cooper for coaching seminars and exhibitions has been put back from March 6 to March 20 because the latter has school examinations which conflict with the earlier date.

The revised plans have them here from March 20 to April 6 and so far there are several open dates available on their schedule. Smith is asking all interested schools, clubs and organisations who would like to take advantage of their presence to contact him at 297-0518 during the evenings.

DOUBLE TROUBLE -- Monique Ternier, left, and Nick Frost are shown on their way to victory in the doubles final of the BTTA National Championships at the weekend.