Finals for Katie Boulter & Lloyd Glasspool, doubles titles for Julian Cash & Madeline Brooks, & British success in Abingdon

Draper followed up the biggest title of his career at the Erste Bank Open by making the quarter-final of the Rolex Paris Masters.

The 22-year-old continued his strong form with wins over Jiri Lehecka and world No.6 Taylor Fritz before eventually bowing out to ninth seed Alex de Minaur 5-7, 6-2, 6-3.

He ends his season at a career-high ranking of world No.15.

There was more British success in the men’s doubles draw of the final ATP Masters 1000 event of the year, with Glasspool reaching the final.

Teaming up with Czech star Adam Pavlasek for the first time, the duo made their way to the final without dropping a set but lost the championship decider against sixth seeds Wesley Koolhof and Nikola Mektic 3-6, 6-3, 10-5.

Skupski and Michael Venus were semi-finalists but also suffered defeat to Koolhof and Mektic 6-2, 6-4 as the 2020 Nitto ATP Finals champions marched on towards the title.

Doubles silverware for Cash & Brooks

Julian Cash won his sixth title of the season at the Bratislava Challenger alongside Colombian Nicolas Barrientos.

The top seeds defeated Sem Verbeek and Andre Goransson in the final 6-3, 6-4 to clinch the title in only their first tournament together.

Cash is one of six British players currently ranked inside of the ATP doubles top 40.

Meanwhile, Madeline Brooks went home with her second W75 title of the season with Dutch star Isabelle Haverlag in Hamburg.

Brooks and Haverlag knocked out fellow Brit Alicia Barnett in the semi-finals, before going on to defeat Riya Bhatia and Lian Tran 6-3, 6-2 in the final.

In the singles, Britain’s Sonay Kartal also reached the final but finished runner-up against Montha Barthel 6-4, 7-6(6).

Kartal has now made the final at three of her last four events – including a first WTA title in Jasmin and the Lexus W100 Shrewsbury. She is now up to a career-high world No.88.

Peniston headlines ITF champions

Ryan Peniston lifted his first title of the season at the M25 Heraklion over the weekend – his third career trophy in Greece.

The former cinch Championships quarter-finalist won the title without dropping a set, finishing with a 6-4, 6-1 victory over France’s Louis Dussin.

Finn Bass claimed a fourth doubles trophy of the year at the M25 Monastir with Jakub Nicod, with the British, Czech team running out 3-6, 6-1, 10-8 winners over Gabriel Evans and Jackson Ross in the final.

Back home, there were British runners-up in each of the draws at the Lexus GB Pro-Series in Loughborough and Norwich.

At the W35 Loughborough, 19-year-old Ranah Stoiber lost to top seed Susan Bandecchi in the final 6-4, 3-6, 6-1, while the young Brit also came runner-up in the doubles with Ella McDonald.

In Norwich, Stuart Parker was defeated in the men’s singles final against No.1 seed Clement Chidekh 6-3, 7-6(6), with Britain’s Conor Brady and Luke Hooper losing out in the doubles final.

Eight British wheelchair tennis titles

Britain’s wheelchair players were in fine form throughout the week, securing a total of eight titles between the Abingdon Futures and the Athens Open.

Dahnon Ward, Abbie Breakwell and Oliver Cox earned a British clean sweep of the men’s, women’s and quad singles titles at the Abingdon Futures, with second seed Ward claiming his second men’s singles title in three years.

After starting his campaign with a close 4-6, 6-2, 6-3 victory over Tokyo Paralympian Dermot Bailey, the second seed beat first-time ITF Futures semi-finalist Ruben Harris 6-3, 6-1 and then came through another three-set contest to beat top seed Andrew Penney 6-1, 6-7(5), 6-3 in a rematch of the 2022 final.

Runner-up in each of the last two years in the women’s singles, Breakwell lived up to her top seeding as she beat Dutch player Donna Broek-Jansen 6-3, 6-2 to earn her first singles title of 2024 and the eighth women’s singles title of her career.

Returning to the scene of his first senior career singles title in 2023, Oxfordshire 17-year-old Cox again made the most of any home advantage, defeating Gary Cox (no relation) 6-1, 5-7, 6-2 to claim his third career singles title.

Home success continued in the doubles draws at the sixth and last UNIQLO Wheelchair Tour event of 2024 to be hosted by the LTA, with another three titles for British players. All four men’s singles semi-finalists contested the men’s doubles decider, but this time Penney had the upper hand after partnering Malaysia’s Borhan too beat Ward and Harris 6-1, 6-3.

The quad doubles also brought different fortunes for Green and Gary Cox. After both losing to Oliver Cox in the quad singles, the defending quad doubles champions beat the singles champion and his partner Dan Pennington Bridges 6-2, 6-4 to retain their title.

Meanwhile, Breakwell left Abingdon with a brace of titles after partnering Sandrine Cauderon Paulin of France to three comfortable straight sets wins, beating runners-up Gryp and Williams 6-4, 6-1.

The Athens Open saw Cornelia Oosthuizen and Ellie Robertson take home the women’s singles and doubles titles between them. Oosthuizen reached the women’s singles final without dropping s game against Kazakhstan’s Zhanat Umutkulova and Switzerland’s Annabelle Ribeaud.

She then sealed her third singles title of the season with a 7-6(4), 6-2 victory over Bulgaria’s Zoya Chavdarova, the player who beat Robertson 6-1, 6-4 in the quarter-finals.

In the women’s doubles the British duo booked their place in the final for the loss of just two games and then battled back to beat Chavdarova and Romania’s Cristina Deac 4-6, 6-0, 10-5 in the final to give 20-year-old Robertson her first senior women’s title in either singles or doubles and Oosthuizen her third doubles title of the season.