Lexus Eastbourne Open 2025: Andy Lapthorne, Greg Slade & Lucy Shuker headline title winners at Devonshire Park
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Britain’s Andy Lapthorne secured his second Lexus Eastbourne Open quad singles title in three years today after defeating world No. 4 Ahmet Kaplan 7-5, 4-6, 6-2 in front of an enthusiastic home crowd at Devonshire Park.
After coming from 4-1 down to take the opening set in front of a Court 2 crowd in excess of 700 people, world No.5 Lapthorne built a 4-1 lead of his own in the decider, set up match point with an ace and completed victory on his first match point.
He leaves Eastbourne having earned successive wins over world top four-ranked opponents following his straight-sets win over top seed and world No.2 Sam Schroder in the semi-finals.
“It was a really, tough battle, and I just tried to recover from yesterday. Playing the number one seed was really, really tough and obviously a massive emotional high, so trying to recover and come down and be ready for today was tough and I think the start showed that.
“The crowd today (was) incredible, I really wasn’t expecting it. When you turn up for an 11am match you’re not expecting a full stadium to come and watch wheelchair tennis. To be on one of the bigger courts at the Eastbourne Open and have it full with British people supporting you is amazing and shows how far the sport has come.”
Spaargaren resigned top seed Gustavo Fernandez of Argentina to the runners-up spot for the second year in a row after the world No.9 clinched the men’s singles final 3-6, 6-3, 6-1.
Meanwhile, Bernal also beat the top seed in the women’s singles final, defeating 2023 Eastbourne champion Diede de Groot 7-6(2), 7-6(2).
Meanwhile, Lapthorne, Greg Slade and Lucy Shuker all retained titles in Eastbourne in the quad doubles and women’s doubles.
Shuker claimed her second successive women’s doubles title in Eastbourne after partnering De Groot to a 6-0, 6-1 victory over British No.2 Cornelia Oosthuizen and Chile’s Macarena Cabrillana.
Meanwhile, Lapthorne collected his second winners’ trophy of the day in the quad doubles as the British No.1and British No.2 Slade, the Paris 2024 Paralympic quad doubles silver medallists, beat Gary Cox and Oliver Cox 6-1, 6-1 in an all-British final.
British No.4 Andrew Penney and China’s Ji Zhenxu finished runners-up to Spain’s Daniel Caverzaschi and Tom Egberink of the Netherlands 6-3, 6-1 in the men’s doubles final.
The vast majority of the wheelchair players who have been competing at the Lexus Eastbourne Open over the past three days now line up for the Lexus British Open Roehampton.
An ITF 1 Series event on the UNIQLO Wheelchair Tennis Tour and an ITF J300 event, the highest-level international wheelchair and junior tennis tournaments in Britain outside of Wimbledon, the Lexus British Open Roehampton junior competition gets underway on Monday 30th, with the wheelchair draws commencing a day later.
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