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It was a case of game, set and many matches for the manager and captain of the Island's men's tennis team.
James Buxton and captain Bruce Wagstaffe completed a 24-hour tennis marathon at the Albany club, to raise funds to send the Manx team to next month's Island Games.
The exhausted duo admitted afterwards there had been some brick walls to overcome:
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