Lloyd Glasspool & Julian Cash win in Vienna, Mimi Xu’s Wrexham double & more British champions on home soil
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Catch up on the latest from the world of British tennis, including a doubles title for the top-ranked team in the world, four titles on home soil and trophies for Britain's rising stars.
Glasspool & Cash win seventh title of the season
Lloyd Glasspool and Julian Cash led the British title winners last week – lifting the ATP 500 Erste Bank Open doubles trophy in Vienna.
The Brits took home their seventh title of the season with a 6-1, 7-6(6) win over Portugal’s Francisco Cabral and Austria’s Lucas Miedler in the final.
Glasspool and Cash also overcame fellow Briton and reigning Australian Open champions Henry Patten and Harri Heliovaara in the semi-final 4-6, 6-3, 10-5.
The Wimbledon champions are currently the No.1 ranked doubles team in the world and are now the world No.1 and No.2 in the ATP doubles rankings.
Home favourite Xu wins in Wrexham
18-year-old Mimi Xu was the star of the Lexus Wrexham Open with the British teenager claiming both the singles and doubles titles.
Xu – who grew up in Swansea – defeated fellow British rising star Mika Stojsavljevic in the final 6-3, 7-5 in-front of a sellout crowd at the UK’s largest indoor tennis event.
She then combined with Ella McDonald in the women’s doubles final to beat Amarni Banks and Valentina Ryser 6-2, 6-4 and complete the Wrexham double.
The W100 title is the biggest of Xu’s career so far and her first singles trophy of the 2025 season.
Former junior US Open champion Stojsavljevic reached the final without losing a set off the back of winning the Lexus British Pro Series Birmingham last week.
McDonald replicated her career-best doubles result from the same tournament in Shrewsbury last year.
Final runs for Monday & Swan
Johannus Monday narrowly missed out on his first ATP Challenger singles title Sioux Falls Challenger in the US.
The 23-year-old Brit lost out to fifth seed Patrick Kypson in the final 6-7(2), 7-6(4), 7-5 in a blockbuster final.
Monday had four break points early in the deciding set against Kypson but couldn’t find a way to convert, as the American went on to win his sixth Challenger title.
Elsewhere, George Loffhagen mad the semi-final of the Hamburg Challenger before losing out to Federico Cina 7-6(5), 6-4.
Katie Swan also reached the final of the W35 Brisbane but finished runner-up to Fangran Tian 2-6, 7-6(5), 6-1.
British champions in Sheffield
Last week’s Lexus British Pro Series Sheffield saw home champions in both the men’s singles and doubles draws.
James Story capped off an impressive week by edging a tight final against Anton Matusevich 6-2, 3-6, 7-6(4) to lift the title.
Story defeated the first, fourth and sixth seed on his way to winning the second ITF singles title of his career so far.
In the doubles, Hamish Stewart and Connor Thomson beat top seeds Clement Chidekh and Mark Whitehouse in the final 6-3, 6-4.
Both players have been in impressive doubles form this season – Stewart winning seven titles and Thomson claiming six.
Bartram lifts doubles title in Taiwan
Ben Bartram successfully retained the Taiwan Open men’s doubles title as the second of three weeks of tournaments in Chinese Taipei for some of Britain’s wheelchair players came to a successful end.
A week on from partnering Japan’s Shogo Takano to win the Taipei Open men’s doubles title, Bartram and Takano again justified top seeding this week by again defeating Malaysia’s Abu Samah Borhan and Mohamad Yusshazwan Yusoff 4-6, 6-4, 10-6 in the title decider.
Bartram, who last year partnered Korea’s Ho Won Im to victory at the Taiwan Open, has now won four career titles with Takano.
Bartram was also runner-up in men’s singles to top seed Daisuke Arai 7-5, 6-3 after beating fellow Brit Andrew Penney 0-6, 6-1, (10-6) in this week’s semis to reverse the result of their Taipei Open semi a week ago.
