Henry Patten captures fourth ATP doubles title; Singles success for Sonay Kartal, Anton Matusevic & Johannus Monday
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Catch up on all the British tennis titles from the last week as Henry Patten and Sonay Kartal continued their impressive form in Europe and on home soil.
Patten & Heliovarra close in on Nitto ATP Finals with Stockholm title
Henry Patten and Harri Heliovaara’s incredible season continues to go from strength-to-strength after the Wimbledon champions took home the title at the BNP Paribas Nordic Open in Stockholm.
Patten and Heliovaara won their fourth tour-level trophy of the season after defeating Petr Nouza and Patrik Rikl 7-5, 6-3 in the final.
The British doubles No.2 was very happy with the team’s performance last week – in which they only dropped one set – and was full of praise for one of his highlight events in the ATP calendar.
“It’s probably my second favourite place to play in,” he said after Saturday’s final. “I came to Stockholm for the first time last year and I was desperate to come back, it’s such a pleasure to play here.”
Their victory in Sweden strengthens their position in eighth position in the Doubles Race to the Nitto ATP Finals in Turin – with a 592-point lead over the pair in ninth. Should they hold their place over the coming weeks they will qualify for the Finals for the first time.
All-British winners in Shrewsbury
Sonay Kartal’s unbelievable form reached new heights on Sunday as the 22-year-old won the Lexus W100 Shrewsbury singles title.
Kartal has now won 29 of her last 32 matches – including her first WTA title in Tunisia and biggest trophy on home soil this weekend.
The young Brit defeated four of her compatriots throughout the week – finishing with a victory over Billie Jean King Cup star Heather Watson in the final 7-5 4-1 (RET).
There was more success in the doubles as 17-year-old Mimi Xu and Amelia Rajecki won the biggest trophies of their careers so far.
Xu and Rajecki beat fellow Brits Hannah Klugman and Ranah Stoiber 6-4, 6-1 in Sunday’s championship match.
This was Xu’s fourth ITF doubles title of the season, while Rajecki added a second to her campaign having also won the Lexus GB Pro-Series Nottingham with Naiktha Bains earlier this year.
Matusevich & Monday crowned singles champions on ITF Tour
Anton Matusevich and Johannus Monday both clinched ITF singles titles this week at home and in the States.
Matusevich won his first singles trophy of the year at the Lexus GB Pro-Series Edgbaston – the biggest title of his career so far.
The Brit defeated his compatriot and 2023 junior Wimbledon champion Henry Searle in the semi-finals before defeating Italy’s Federico Bondioli 6-2, 3-6, 7-5 in the final.
Meanwhile, 22-year-old Monday claimed back-to-back titles at the M25 Harlingen title this weekend.
The former NCAA No.1 ranked player had a dominant week in Texas – closing out the tournament with a 6-0, 6-1 win against Czech Republic’s Tadeas Paroulek in the final.
Now on a 10-match unbeaten run, Monday has three M25 titles to his name this year and this week has risen 155 spots to world No.573.
Ward clinches men’s doubles title in France
Dahnon Ward ensured that his first tournament since the Paris 2024 Paralympics ended on a victorious note when he partnered Dutchman Robin Groenewoud to win the men’s doubles at the Montfermeil Open in France.
The top seeds proved unstoppable in the doubles, winning a thrilling semi-final that featured Brits on both sides of the net. Ultimately, Ward and Groenewoud edged Joshua Johns and Hungary’s Laszlo Farkas 2-6, 6-2, 10-3 and that proved to be their toughest test.
They went on to beat French second seeds Romain Boittiaux and Nicolas Charrier 7-5, 7-5 to give Ward his first doubles title of 2024 and the sixth men’s doubles title of his career.
The ITF Futures tournament also saw Caroline MacDonald and Helen Bond both equal career-best performances in the women’s singles. More accustomed to success in LTA regional and national competitions, Macdonald and Bond secured their best international results since 2017 as they set up an all-British semi-final, with Bond beating Swiss second seed Annabelle Ribeaud 6-2, 6-3 in her quarter-final. But MacDonald then prevailed 6-3, 7-6(3) in the last four before eventually losing out 6-0, 6-0 to Dutch top seed Jinte Bos in the final.
