British tennis stars take home 260 titles in 2024
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What a year it’s been for the British tennis players competing on the ATP, WTA, ITF and UNIQLO Wheelchair Tennis Tours in 2024.
The Brits have won an incredible 260 unique pro titles this year – that’s more than both 2022 (209) and 2023 (214).
To break down a few more of the numbers, this includes:
- 95 different British title winners
- 181 non-wheelchair titles
- 79 wheelchair titles
- 61 titles won on home soil in Great Britain
From Grand Slams to Paralympics, the British stars have clinched silverware all over the world and at almost every level of the professional game.
As the season draws to a close – we look back at the biggest titles and highlights from the British stars this year.
Grand Slam glory for four Brits
Henry Patten, Alfie Hewett, Gordon Reid and Andy Lapthorne all made headlines this year as British Grand Slam champions.
The highlight of a breakout season for 28-year-old Patten was a first major title alongside Finnish partner Harri Heliovaara – and where better to do it than Wimbledon.
Patten became the third Briton to win the men’s doubles title in the Open Era after coming through an epic final against Australia’s Jordan Thompson and Max Purcell 6-7(7), 7-6(8), 7-6(9).
It sparked a meteoric rise for Patten. Winning a Grand Slam after only two months playing together, he has since gone on to become British No.1, reach a career-high world No.12 and qualified for his first Nitto ATP Finals where he reached the semi-finals.
In wheelchair tennis, 26-year-old Hewett became only the second men’s player to complete the career Grand Slam after winning his maiden Wimbledon singles title.
While his straight sets win over Spain’s Martin De La Puente marked his ninth singles major, this one was extra special, coming at the tournament he’d dreamt of winning his whole life.
Having missed out in the final on previous occasions, Hewett embraced every moment of his victory. "These last few years have been difficult leaving The Championships,” he said. "I think today proves that no matter how many times you get knocked down you can get back up again and keep trying.”
Hewett and Reid also continued their dominance in Grand Slam doubles – winning all three titles on offer this season at the Australian Open, Roland Garros and Wimbledon (US Open cancelled due to clash with the Paralympics).
A 21st Grand Slam title for Hewett and Reid at Wimbledon saw them surpass the tally of most major doubles titles won by one partnership, overtaking the 20 titles shared by the partnerships of Althea Louise Brough and Margaret Evelyn Du Pont, and Martina Navratilova and Pam Shriver.
They’ve lost just one Grand Slam match together in the last two years – winning six of the last seven titles available.
Rounding off the Grand Slam success this season, we have British quad wheelchair tennis star Lapthorne, who added a seventh Australian Open doubles title to his tally back in January.
Lapthorne and David Wagner overcame Donald Ramphadi and Guy Sasson 6-4, 3-6, 10-2 in the final to clinch the title – 10 years on from their first trophy together in Melbourne.
British medals at the Paris Paralympics
Grand Slams weren’t the only major titles on offer this year, with the Paris Olympic and Paralympic Games taking centre stage over the summer.
Hewett and Reid made history on Court Philippe-Chatrier as they completed the Golden Slam with an impressive 6-2, 6-1 win over Japanese second seeds Tokito Oda and Takuya Miki in the final.
It marked Hewett’s first Paralympic gold medal to add to his three silvers from Rio 2016 and Tokyo 2020, while Reid added a second gold to go alongside his 2016 singles gold medal, as well as two silvers (2016 & 2020) and a bronze (2020).
Hewett also made the final of the men’s singles, but came away with the silver medal, and there were also silvers for Lapthorne and Greg Slade in the quad doubles.
Boulter, Draper & Kartal lift tour titles
Katie Boulter, Jack Draper and Sonay Kartal set new milestones of their own this season after all three won tour-level titles.
British No.1 Boulter kicked off her season in great form, culminating with the biggest title of her career at the WTA 500 San Diego, where she defeated five players ranked inside the world’s top 40.
Just a few months later she was back at the Rothesay Open Nottingham to defend her title. Having battled her way to the final with two three-set thrillers against her Billie Jean King Cup teammates Harriet Dart and Emma Raducanu, Boulter made it back-to-back trophies at her home event after beating Karolina Pliskova 4-6, 6-3, 6-2.
"I'm very happy with today,” she said after the final. “I never thought it would happen again. I thought it would be one time in Nottingham, but this one is very special to me."
Meanwhile, Draper has enjoyed the best season of his career in 2024. Having missed out on the title in Adelaide earlier in the year, he managed to clinch his first ATP silverware in Stuttgart on the grass – taking down two-time cinch Championships winner Matteo Berrettini in the final.
Later in the year, and just after an incredible semi-final run at the US Open, Draper doubled his tally for the year in Vienna.
Draper defeated former Paris Masters champion Karen Khachanov 6-4, 7-5 to become the fourth British man to win an ATP 500 title in the Open Era after Andy Murray, Cam Norrie and Dan Evans.
One of the stories of the year was 22-year-old Kartal’s maiden WTA title at the Jasmin Open.
The Brighton-native – who is supported by our Pro Scholarship Programme, presented by Lexus – has made waves on the LTA Performance Competitions Calendar this year with five titles on home soil, but competing on the hard courts in Tunisia she claimed the biggest accolade of her career.
She beat Slovakia’s Rebecca Šramková 6-3, 7-5 to not only win the title but go on to break into the WTA top 100 for the first time.
Kartal is one of 11 British singles players to feature inside the top 100 this season.
More doubles success for the Brits
There have been even more doubles titles on the ATP and WTA Tours this year, stretching from Australia to Japan and back on home soil as well.
Neal Skupski had a summer to remember on the grass courts with former College teammate at LSU Michael Venus – claiming consecutive titles at the cinch Championships and Rothesay International Eastbourne, before going on a semi-final run at Wimbledon.
Jamie Murray, Lloyd Glasspool and Julian Cash also found themselves amongst the ATP 500 champions this year. Murray won the best of his three trophies this season at the Swiss Indoors Basel alongside Australian John Peers, after they came through qualifying to clinch the title against top seeds Wesley Koolhof and Nikola Mektic 6-3, 7-5.
Glasspool and Cash joined forces to win the Japan Open in only their second tournament together as a duo – the biggest level of title either player has won in their careers.
Both players also won separate events with other partners as well – Glasspool kicking off his season with the Brisbane International trophy and Cash secured both the Delray Beach Open and Mallorca Championships.
Olivia Nicholls won the biggest women’s doubles title of the season with Australian Olivia Gadecki in Texas.
Nicholls and Gadecki combined to beat Katarzyna Kawa and Bibiane Schoofs in the ATX Open final 6-2, 6-4 to take home her second WTA trophy. She’s since gone on to become the British No.1 and broke into the WTA top 40.
Meanwhile, former world No.1 Joe Salisbury won the Adelaide International in January and Luke Johnson sealed the Moselle Open title – adding to his seven ATP Challenger doubles trophies this year.
British duo Emily Appleton and Maia Lumsden also finished the year on a high by winning the WTA 125 Dow Tennis Classic women’s doubles crown.
British singles stars clinch silverware on the Challenger ITF Tours
Jacob Fearnley was one of the rising stars of 2024, having burst onto the scene with his first ATP Challenger title at the Rothesay Open Nottingham during the summer.
The TCU graduate went on to capture trophies in Lincoln, Rennes and Orleans to become only the second Brit to win four Challenger titles in a season after Draper in 2022. His performances saw him break into the ATP top 100 for the first time.
Jan Choinski also got his hands on ATP Challenger Tour silverware on the clay courts in Tulln, Austria – the third singles Challenger of his career so far.
Jodie Burrage ended the season on a high with the biggest singles title of her career at the W100 Dubai – beating top seed Polina Kudermetova in the final 6-3, 6-3. Burrage – who is supported by the Pro Scholarship Programme, presented by Lexus – had been dealing with injury for large parts of the season, but ended the year with three semi-finals and two finals in her last six events.
Lily Miyazaki won her first singles titles in two years The 29-year-old proved a force on the French hard courts, winning both the W75 Andrezieux-Boutheon and W75 Croissy-Beaubourg to mark the joint biggest titles of her career.
Francesca Jones also featured amongst the W75 singles champions this year in Grado, Italy, where she defeated second seed Kathinka von Deichmann in the final 6-1, 7-5 to win her first title in three years.
Heather Watson picked up some of her best results on home soil this season, not only reaching the Lexus W100 Shrewsbury final, but also winning the W50 Nottingham.
Several of Great Britain’s junior tennis stars have also enjoyed a title-winning start to their transition to the professional game, with junior US Open champion Mika Stojsavljevic, Mimi Xu and Ella McDonald all capturing their first singles titles in 2024.
British wheelchair tennis goes from strength to strength
There’s been plenty more to celebrate in British wheelchair tennis as well on both the men’s and the women’s sides.
In addition to our Grand Slam champions and Paralympic medallists, several British players on the LTA Wheelchair Performance Pathway won titles in 2024.
Lucy Shuker won six ITF doubles trophies – the best of which came at the ITF1 Daegu Open alongside Dutch partner Aniek van Koot.
Ruby Bishop rounded off an impressive campaign with a total of six combined singles and doubles titles, Cornelia Oosthuizen won six, including at Birmingham, meanwhile Abbie Breakwell lifted three ITF Futures trophies this year.
Andrew Penney was a four-time ITF singles title winner, including the ITF3 JTCC Championships, in addition to five doubles trophies in a bumper year for the 20-year-old.
Ben Bartram took home the singles title at the Kaohsiung Open to add to his two doubles crowns this year, while Dahnon Ward won the Abingdon Futures singles trophy.
Joshua Johns, Martha Harris, Emily Donnan, Ellie Robertson, Oliver Cox, Gary Cox and Richard Green all featured amongst this year’s title winners as well.
