Andy Lapthorne wins quad doubles title at French Riviera Open
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Andy Lapthorne brought the British challenge at the French Riviera Open to a victorious end after partnering Australian Heath Davidson to the quad doubles title.
Their first title together as a partnership to give Lapthorne his second successive ITF Super Series doubles title at the Mouratoglou Tennis Academy in Biot.
Top seeds Lapthorne and Davidson beat Chile’s Francisco Cayulef and Argentina’s Gonzalo Lazarte 6-4, 6-2 as Lapthorne gained the 15th Super Series title of his career and went some way to making up for having lost out to Cayulef 6-4, 6-7(4), 6-3 in the quarter-finals of the quad singles.
For beaten doubles finalists Cayulef and Lazarte it was the second time in a week that their title challenge had come to an end at the hands of an Anglo-Australian partnership after Greg Slade and Benjamin Wenzel had beaten the same South American duo in the semi-finals of the Sardinian Open. However, Cayulef and Lazarte avenged that loss after a deciding match tie-break in the quarter-finals in Biot and Australian world No. 8 Jin Woodman ended Slade’s quad singles title bid 6-1, 6-4, also in the singles quarter-finals.
Elsewhere, two-time French Riviera Open champion Gordon Reid was unable to progress beyond the men’s singles quarter-finals, exiting in the last eight after a 6-2, 2-6, 7-5 loss to Japanese eight seed Takuya Miki.
While British No.2 Reid only played in the singles draw at this year’s French Riviera Open, the men’s doubles brought a notable success for Ben Bartram as the British No.3 reached the semi-final of a Super Series doubles draw for just the second time.
Bartram and Brazil’s Danel Rodrigues beat Dutch fourth seeds Robin Groenewoud and Maarten Ter Hoften 6-4, 6-1 for their second doubles win of the week in France, but hopes of any further success came to an end against second seeds Daniel Caverzaschi of Spain and Frenchman Stephane Houdet in the last four as the eventual French Riviera Open champions progressed to the final 6-4, 6-3.
Bartram’s singles challenge started well after being drawn against fellow Brit Andrew Penney, Bartram advancing to the second round 6-2, 6-4 before his campaign ended against Miki 6-6, 6-3. Meanwhile, British No.3 Bartram and British No.4 Penney were drawn to meet each other again in the first round of the men’s doubles, Penney and Korea’s Ho Won Im losing out to eventual semi-finalists Bartram and Rodrigues 7-5, 6-1.
With six Brits taking on the fourth and final Super Series tournament of 2025, British No.2 Cornelia Oosthuizen had the misfortune of being drawn against second seed Aniek van Koot for the first round of the women’s singles, the Dutchwoman winning 6-2, 6-3 before going on to progress to the final.
For Oosthuizen and Pauline Deroulede of France, a bye through to the quarter-finals of the women’s doubles brought no greater success, either, as the Anglo-French duo lost out to Wimbledon finalists Angelica Bernal of Colombia and Ksenia Chasteau of France 6-2, 6-2.
