Ben Jones claims Wuning Challenger doubles trophy as Andrew Penney & Lucy Shuker lift wheelchair doubles titles

Jones wins second Challenger title

Ben Jones won the second ATP Challenger Tour title of his career in the men’s doubles event in Wuning, China.

Jones – currently the world No.184 in ATP doubles – teamed up with Australian Joshua Charlton to win his first title of the 2026 season.

The second seeds battled past Sergey Betov and Daniil Ostapenkov in the semi-finals 6-4, 3-6, 10-7 to set up a final with fellow Brit Giles Hussey and his partner Buvaysar Gadamauri.

Jones and Charlton needed just over an hour to beat the British, Belgian duo 6-4, 6-2 and lift their first title together in two years.

27-year-old Jones now has 28 professional doubles titles to his name, including nine from last season.

In the Wuning Challenger men’s singles, Britain’s Harry Wendelken also reached the final, his third ATP Challenger final of the season so far.

However, it was a runner-up finish for the Brit, losing out to Pavel Kotov 4-6, 6-3, 6-4 Iin the final.

In other highlight results last week, Toby Samuel reached the semi-finals of the Madrid Challenger, continuing his strong run of form this season.

Freya Christie, Eden Silva and Alicia Dudeney made the semi-finals of the women’s doubles at the W75 Calvi.

Dudeney also made the semi-finals in the singles before losing out to fifth seed Katherine Sebov 6-4, 6-4.

Finally, Ranah Stoiber came runner-up in the W50 Bujumbura with Nahia Berecoechea, going out to Julia Adams and Merel Hoedt in the final 6-4, 7-5.

Penney & Shuker claim doubles titles in Japan

Andrew Penney and Lucy Shuker each won their second doubles titles of 2026 as they claimed men’s and women’s honours at the Kobe Open in Japan.

Penney and Korea’s Ho Won Im reached their first doubles final as a partnership after dropping just two games across their opening two matches. They sealed victory at the WT175 event following a 6-0, 6-1 victory over the Korean-Japanese second seeds Ji-Hwan Lee and Tomoya Tachi.

A week after securing his first singles win of 2026 over a top 20-ranked opponent, Penney reached the last four at the Kobe Open before losing out to his doubles partner Im 6-4, 6-3.

British No.1 and three-time Paralympic medallist Shuker and Yui Kamiji, the double gold medallist at the Paris 2024 Paralympics, asserted their dominance from the outset in Kobe winning both their quarter and semi-final matches against all-Japanese partnerships for the loss of just one game.

The top seeds were in even more dominant form in the final, beating Charlotte Fairbank of France and Seira Matsuoka of Japan 6-0, 6-0 to seal their fourth career title as a partnership.

Shuker’s singles campaign also began well with back-to-back wins before her title ambitions ended in the last four against second seed Saki Takamuro 6-0, 6-2.

Penney and Shuker will now join several of Britain’s other leading players in South Korea for this week’s WT500 Seoul Korea Open, where Greg Slade will hope to maintain the good form he displayed at the WT500 Daegu Open.

Slade secured his first career win in five matches against Argentina’s world No.7 Gonzalo Lazarte 6-4, 1-6, 6-3 to reach the quad single semi-finals in Daegu before bowing out to top seed and eventual champion Ahmet Kaplan of Turkey.