Harry Wendelken wins maiden ATP Challenger title & Lui Maxted lifts first singles trophy
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Catch up with the latest from the British tennis stars competing across the world, including career-best wins in Greece and Tunisia.
Wendelken claims career-best title
23-year-old Harry Wendelken won the first ATP Challenger Tour doubles title of his career at the Hersonissos Challenger over the weekend.
Wendelken teamed up with Germany’s Mats Rosenkranz to seal the trophy with a 4-6, 6-4, 10-7 win against No.1 seeds Vlad Victor Cornea and Patrik Niklas-Salminen.
They finished the week having defeated both top seeded teams – knocking out all-British second seeds Tom Hands and Scott Duncan in the quarter-final.
The British star has now won six doubles titles in his career, but this is the first above ITF $25k level. He’s won three doubles and one singles trophy so far in 2025.
In other notable doubles results – Britain’s Neal Skupski and Joe Salisbury reached the semi-final at Winston-Salem but were forced to withdraw.
Maxted wins titles in Tunisia
It was also a breakout week for rising British star Lui Maxted – lifting his first professional singles title at the M15 Monastir.
The 21-year-old beat Yassine Dlimi of Marrakech in the final 6-3, 7-6(6) to tick of a new milestone in his career.
The result comes off the back of a second round run at the Lexus Nottingham Challenger and quarter-final showing at the Lexus Pro Series Aldershot.
He also caimed the doubles title in Monastir alongside Britain's William Nolan - defeating Etienne Donnet and Finn Murgett in the final 6-7(7), 6-2, 10-8.
This was the first title of Nolan's career in only his third tournament of the season.
Both players have recently been competing in the NCAA. Maxted starred for Texas Christian University (TCU), following the footsteps of fellow Brits Cam Norrie, Jacob Fearnley and Jack Pinnington Jones, while Nolan has been playing for Auburn.
Last year, Maxted became only the third British player to win the NCAA Doubles Championships title.
Four British wheelchair champions
British stars dominated the Vilnius Open wheelchair tennis competitions this year - with Oliver Cox, Ruby Bishop and Ruben Harris winning silverware.
Meanwhile, Abbie Breakwell won the women's singles and doubles titles at the BTA Open in Italy.
Breakwell beat Sally Schwartz of Australia in the final 6-3, 6-2 and then teamed up with Christina Pesendorfer to defeat Schwartz and Maria Vietti 5-7, 7-6(1), 10-8 in the doubles.
It's the third time this year that Breakwell has won singes and doubles at the same tournament.
