UK championship-winning teams don't grow in trees - just ask Sutton Tennis & Squash Club's Tim Webster.

The 25-year-old Cornishman is set to be part of the Devonshire Road-based club's push for the Men's National Club League title, after they reached finals weekend for the sixth successive season.

It makes them one of the most successful squads in the tournament's relatively brief history and certainly the leading members-only club in the country.

Tennis professional and club coach Webster was part of the 2004 squad who lost in the final to Jersey-based Caesarean, blowing four championship points in the final doubles rubber in the process.

It is the closest Sutton have come to claiming the trophy - and the £3,000 first prize - but former Sutton Tennis Academy scholar Webster believes they can go one step further this time around.

The squad boast ex-Davis Cup star Miles MacLagan, former world top 300 player Matthew Smith and Zimbabwean doubles specialist Wayne Black, while Ed Allinson and Ollie Kalaitzis are both full-time pros.

And Webster, Cornwall's number one county player, believes it is this strength in depth that could carry Sutton to the title.

"We have not lost a match so far and I see no reason why we cannot win the whole thing this time. With a team like the one we have, we stand every chance," he said.

"We have got Davis Cup players, Ollie and Ed are pros and, in Wayne, we have a former world top-10 doubles player.

"Our second team have reached National Division One - the same level as our first team - which shows we have great depth, whereas some clubs just concentrate on their top team.

"It would be the first time we have won it and would be a huge achievement for the club and our supporters, who have been great all season.

"We have come close before. It was a huge disappointment to lose in 2004.

"It would be great to go that one stage further this time around."

A triumph in Bournemouth - where the finals start on September 7 - would mark a big year for Sutton, who have just finished a major clubhouse refurbishment.

The continued success of the men's team means several promising youngsters are moving through the ranks under the eye of Webster and the team of coaches at Devonshire Road.

Sutton's profile is rising steadily and the club's hierarchy - under chairman Chris Willis - are planning a return of their once-famous pre-Wimbledon tournament to the national tennis calendar in the not-too-distant future.

With LTA chief executive Roger Draper among the club's members, few would bet against it.

"The facilities here are capable of hosting such a tournament and I would think once we have got something sanctioned by the LTA, we could be in a position to host one again in a couple of years," added Webster.

"If you look at our honours board, we have had Wimbledon champions play and win here before, so we have history and proof we can do it.

"If we can get it off the ground in two years, we could easily get a tournament on the British Tour attracting some of the best players in the country, if not the world."

Road to the national finals March 31: West Worthing, Sussex won 4-2 April 15: Winchester, Hants won 5-1 April 22: St George's Hill, Surrey won 5-1 May 13: Halton, Bucks won 6-0 May 20: Lee-on-Solent won 5-1 June 10: Westside, London won June 17: West Hants, Hants won 5-1 July 14 (play-off): Ipswich, Suffolk won 6-0 September 7: National Club League finals