The Brits enjoyed their greatest success on the final day of the Maureen Connolly Challenge, bringing some respectability to the scoreline at Coral Beach.

Having already relinquished the trophy ? for the 20th time ? by the third game on Friday, the defending champions went into the final day of competition 7-1 down and hoping to salvage some pride in the best-of-11 series.

The day started badly with 6ft1ins Naomi Broady going down 6-2, 7-6 to American number two Joanna Mather but then the British number one started the mini-fightback.

Naomi Cavaday, disappointed to lose against Mather on Friday, beat Sarah Guzick 6-0, 6-3 with a commanding display of power tennis.

The final game of the 32-year-old tournament then saw the older players in the Under 14 and Under 16 transatlantic challenge go head-to head in the doubles.

And Broady and Cavaday prevailed 7-6, 6-3 over Guzick and Mather to give the Brits their third win but still suffer their heaviest defeat in the tournament since 1990, going down 8-3 to make the overall score 20-11 in favour of the Americans.

This was the first time all the matches had been completed in Bermuda, with the 2000 edition of the Challenge ending 4-4 with the final day's play washed out.