Henry Patten & Alfie Hewett win titles in Paris & Harriet Dart claims the biggest singles trophy of her career
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All the latest from British tennis, including two titles at the Rolex Paris Masters, a career-best win and more success on the ITF and wheelchair tennis tours.
Patten wins maiden ATP Masters 1000 title
Henry Patten led the British titles this week with his first ATP Masters 1000 trophy at the Rolex Paris Masters.
Two-time Grand Slam champions Patten and Harri Heliovaara defeated all-British duo Lloyd Glasspool and Julian Cash in the final 6-3, 6-4 to clinch the title.
This was their seventh title together as a team and their first win in five matches against the Wimbledon champions.
The victory puts them up to second in the race to be crowned the year-end No.1 doubles team in the world, behind Glasspool and Cash.
Patten became the seventh British man to win an ATP Masters 1000 doubles title and will now move on to the Nitto ATP Finals in Turin.
First WTA final for Webley-Smith
One of the stories of the weekend was Britain’s Emily Webley-Smith reaching her first WTA final in Jiujiang alongside Ekaterina Ovcharenko.
The 41-year-old Brit combined with Ovcharenko to defeat second seeds Kristina Mladenovic and Katarzyna Piter in the quarter-finals, before seeing off Mana Ayukawa and Kanako Morisaki 7-5, 7-6(4) to reach the final.
However, the duo eventually finished runners-up after losing out to third seeds Quinn Gleason and Elena Pridankina 6-4, 2-6, 10-6.
Elsewhere, Marcus Willis and Joshua Paris also made the final of the Bratislava Challenger but lost out to top seeds Sander Gille and Sem Verbeek 7-6(3), 6-3.
Dart wins biggest title of her career
Harriet Dart lifted the biggest singles title of her career at the weekend – taking home the trophy at the W75 Toronto.
The former Lexus GB Billie Jean King Cup star won her second title of the season with a 6-2, 6-2 victory over American Fiona Crawley in the final.
It was an impressive week for the Briton, who lost just one set all week and knocked out the fifth and eighth seed on her way to the title.
The win has seen Dart rise 46 places in the WTA rankings up to world No.178. There are currently six British players inside the world’s top 200.
Wendelken, Gillan & Hudd amongst ITF title winners
On the ITF World Tennis Tour, Harry Wendelken continued his recent run of form with another title at the Lexus British Pro Series Glasgow.
Wendelken beat Jelle Sels of the Netherlands 6-3, 1-6, 6-2 in the final to claim his third title of the season.
The 23-year-old Brit recently won his first ATP Challenger singles title in Hersonissos as well.
Staying in Glasgow, Freya Christie and Lily Miyazaki made the W75 doubles final but lost to Celine Naef and Clervie Ngounoue 6-0, 6-4. In the men's doubles final, Britain's Joe Tyler and American partner Phillip Jordan lost out to Dutch No.1 seeds Jarno Jans and Niels Visker 7-5, 6-3.
Meanwhile, Alice Gillan won the W15 Malta title – beating Croatia’s Karla Popovic in the final 6-3, 6-3. This marked her fourth career singles title.
In Australia, Emile Hudd sealed the M25 Brisbane men’s doubles title with Joshua Charlton with a 6-3, 6-1 final win against Yuchiro Inui and Carl Emil Overbeck.
Hewett wins Paris Masters as five Brits lift wheelchair titles
Alfie Hewett won the inaugural wheelchair men’s singles title at the Rolex Paris Masters after coming through an all-British final against Gordon Reid.
Hewett won the ITF 1 title with a 7-5, 6-7(4), 6-0 win over his compatriot and doubles partner to claim his sixth singles trophy of the season and first since the Lexus British Open Roehampton.
Hewett and Reid finished runners-up in the men’s doubles to Martin De La Puente and Ruben Spaargaren 6-2, 3-2 (RET).
Ben Bartram retained his singles title at the Kaosiung Open with a 6-2, 6-4 win over third seed Anderson Parker in the final.
Andrew Penney then won the men’s doubles title with Suresh Dharmasena with a dominant 6-3, 6-0 victory against Abu Samah Borhan and Mahamad Yusshazwan Yusoff.
British No.1 Lucy Shuker and French doubles partner Pauline Deroulede beat Charlotte Fairbank and Britta Wend in the Yvelines Wheelchair Tennis Tournament final 6-1, 6-2. Shuker now has five doubles titles on the season so far.
On home soil, Joshua Johns won his fourth doubles title of the year at the Abingdon Futures Wheelchair Tennis Tournament. Top seeds Johns and Alexander Lantermann beat fellow Brit Ruben Harris and Olivier Langlois in the final 6-3, 6-2.
