Jack Draper clinches Vienna title & Jamie Murray wins in Basel as Brits secure 11 trophies
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Catch up on an incredible week in British tennis with career-best titles, new British No.1s and more trophies on home soil.
Draper & Murray lift ATP 500 titles
Jack Draper won the biggest title of his career over the weekend – lifting his first ATP 500 at the Erste Bank Open in Vienna.
Draper beat 28-year-old former Paris Masters champion Karen Khachanov 6-4, 7-5 in the final to become the first player to win the title on debut since Andy Murray in 2014.
He is now the fourth British player to win an ATP 500 level event after Murray, Cam Norrie and Dan Evans.
Draper has now won two ATP titles on the season – after clinching the Boss Open in Stuttgart this summer – and is now up to a career-high ranking of world No.15.
Read the full report from the Erste Bank Open final
Elsewhere, former world No.1 Jamie Murray got his hands on silverware for the second time this year – winning the Swiss Indoors Basel with John Peers.
Murray and Peers came through qualifying and beat all three top seeded pairs en route to the title – fishing with a final win over Wesley Koolhof and Nikola Mektic 6-4, 7-5.
The British and Australian pairing have now won seven titles together, but this was their first since 2015. It’s also Murray’s best trophy win since 2018 (Cincinnati Masters).
British stars continue form ATP & WTA Tours
There were more British finalists in ATP and WTA events this weekend as Katie Boulter, Neal Skupski and Emily Appleton both enjoyed successful weeks.
Boulter was a semi-finalist at the Toray Pan Pacific Open Tennis last week - her third WTA semi-final of the season.
Boulter beat Priscilla Hon, Kyoka Okamura and Bianca Andresscu before losing out to Sofia Kenin 6-4, 6-4 in the final four.
The British No.1 is now back up to world No.29 in the WTA rankings.
Skupski and Michael Venus finished the week as runners-up in Vienna after losing to home favourites Alexander Erler and Lucas Miedler 4-6, 6-3, 10-1 in the final.
It’s the third final that the Wimbledon semi-finalists have reached since joining together over the summer.
New British No.1 Henry Patten and Finaland’s Harri Heliovaara also reached the semi-finals before a 1-6, 7-5, 13-11 defeat to Erler and Miedler.
Appleton joined forces with China’s Qianhui Tang Guangzhou Open – reaching her first WTA 250 semi-final.
Appleton and Tang lost to Katarzyna Piter and Fanny Stollar 7-5, 6-3 in the final four, but the Brit has now broken into the top 100 for the first time in her career.
Titles for Willis, Stevenson, Burrage, Christie & Monday
Over in Taipei, Marcus Willis and David Stevenson took home their second title of the season together and first ATP Challenger as a partnership.
Willis and Stevenson defeated fellow Brit Josh Paris and his partner Ji Sung Nam 6-3, 6-3 to be crowned Taipei Challenger champions.
Willis has won eight titles this season – seven of which have come at Challenger level – and is currently ranked at world No.81 in the ATP doubles rankings.
Meanwhile, Stevenson adds a second Challenger crown to his name on a breakout season that has seen him climb inside the world’s top 150.
Back on home soil – British partnership Jodie Burrage and Freya Christie won the Lexus GB Pro-Series Glasgow title.
Long standing fiends Burrage and Christie overcame fourth seeds Mariam Bolkvadze and Isabelle Haverlag 6-4, 3-6, 10-5 in the final.
For Burrage – who also made the semi-finals of the singles – it’s another strong step back on her road to recovery from consecutive injuries at the start of this year.
Finally on the ITF Tour, Johannus Monday continued his impressive form by winning a third M25 title of the month in Norman, Oklahoma.
Monday extended his unbeaten record to 15 consecutive matches after defeating Canadian Juan Carlos Aguilar in the final 6-1, 6-3.
Monday is currently supported by our NCAA Support Programme and was ranked as high as No.1 in collegiate tennis last season.
Six wheelchair tennis titles in Asia
British wheelchair tennis players have won a total of six titles between them in the last week at two ITF 3 tournaments in Kaohsiung, Chinese Taipei, with Ben Bartram, Greg Slade and Ruby Bishop each returning home with two titles apiece after winning four titles on Sunday at the Kaohsiung Open.
Bartram’s title campaign in Kaohsiung began with winning the men’s doubles at the Eureka Cup Taiwan Open, partnering Korea’s Ho Won Im. The top seeds beat second seeds Andrew Penney and Shogo Takano 7-5, 6-2 in the first of three doubles finals to feature Brits on either side of the net as Bartram and Penney made up for losing out to their respective doubles partners in the men’s singles semis.
Bartram and Penney went on to pair up for the men’s doubles at the Kaohsiung Open, where they were second seeds, but they narrowly missed out on taking the spoils after losing out to Takano and Malaysia’s Mohamad Yusshazwan Yusoff 7-6(1), 4-6, 10-5.
Nevertheless, Bartram went one better in the men’s singles, earning his first singles title since 2022 after beating Yusoff 6-3, 6-1 in the title decider.
Bishop and Abbie Breakwell both made early women’s singles exits at the Taiwan Open, but the doubles brought greater reward for Bishop as she paired with former Asian Para Games gold medallist Sakhorn Khanthasit of Thailand to beat top seeds Cornelia Oosthuizen and France’s Zoe Maras 6-1, 6-1 in another doubles final to feature Brits on both sides of the net.
Bishop and Khanthasit carried their momentum into the Kaohsiung Open, beating Oosthuizen and Maras in a deciding match tie-break in their opening match and then defeating Breakwell and South Africa’s Mariska Venter 6-4, 7-5 in the final as Bishop claimed her 14th career doubles title.
It was also a tournament that saw all three British women reach finals, with Oosthuizen easing into the women’s singles final with three straight sets wins before finishing as runner-up to Japanese top seed Manami Tanaka 6-3, 6-4.
Slade found the winning formula at the Kaohsiung Open to end his trip to Chinese Taipei with two titles. After avenging his early singles loss at the Taiwan Open he went on to power past top seed Ugur Altinel of Turkey 6-3, 6-0 to win his second ITF 3 singles title of the season and then partnered Australian Finn Broadbent to take the first set of the quad doubles final 6-3 before their Japanese opponents Mitsuteru Moroishi and Kei Usami retired.
