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E return to the 2023 Spring Fours, the top event in the UK calendar, attracting many foreign experts. Our quarter-final opponents included players from Spain and Sweden, our semi-final opponents contained a pair who had travelled all the way from Sao Paulo, Brazil, and our final opponents (spoiler

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