Wimbledon 2025: Julian Cash & Lloyd Glasspool beat defending champions to reach semi-finals

Cash and Glasspool saved three match points to defeat reigning champions Henry Patten and Harri Heliovaara 6-4, 4-6, 7-6(10-8) in two hours and five minutes.

It’s their first Grand Slam semi-final together off the back of a grass court season where they have already won titles at the HSBC Championships and Lexus Eastbourne Open.

Their record on grass this summer stands at an incredible 15-1 since they started out with a final run in Stuttgart.

So far this year, Cash and Glasspool have won a total of four titles, including Brisbane and Doha on top of their grass court triumphs.

Their opponents in the semi-final will be fourth seeds Marcel Granollers and Horacio Zeballos after the Spanish, Argentinian team put in a near flawless performance to beat Brits Joe Salisbury and Neal Skupski 7-6(6), 7-6(3).

Granollers and Zeballos are currently playing their first tournament of the season on grass after also beating Salisbury and Skupski to win the final in Roland Garros at the start of June.

Despite being two of the in-form teams on the ATP Tour for the last 12 months, this will be first meeting between the pairings.

In the first of two men’s doubles quarter-finals of the day, there was almost nothing to split Cash and Glasspool from their opponents Patten and Heliovaara – both teams executing perfectly on serve.

The match would ultimately come down to the smallest of margins in the biggest moments. First of all, coming at 4-4 in the opening set where Patten fired a backhand volley long on the first break point of the match.

In the second however, it was Cash’s turn to tighten up in the business end of the set, serving at 5-4 down. The reigning Wimbledon and Australian Open champions managed to capitalise on a few costly errors on the Brit’s service game to level the score at one apiece on their third set point.

History seemed to be repeating itself once again at the end of the decider, Cash found himself 6-5, 0-40 down on his serve and staring down three match points.

The 28-year-old from Hove showed great spirit and determination to serve his way out of trouble and force the first tie-break of the match.

Locked at 7-7 in the match tie-break, Glasspool connected on an awkward forehand return into the body which just landed out of the reach of his oncoming opponent to take a crucial mini break.

The Briton showed zero signs of nerves on the next two points – eventually thumping down a 116mph second serve on match point to book a place in the semi-finals.

For Salisbury and Skupski it was heartbreak against the duo that denied them a first French Open title just a few weeks ago.

The Brits didn’t face a break point or hit a single unforced error all match, but Granollers and Zeballos just had the extra level in two close tie-breaks.

Salisbury will return to action tomorrow to contest in the mixed doubles final with Luisa Stefani of Brazil up against Sem Verbeek and Katerina Siniakova.