Luke Johnson, Harriet Dart & Maia Lumsden reach tour doubles semi-finals as Alastair Gray leads British champion in Glasgow
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Get all the latest from the British tennis stars this week after some strong doubles runs on the ATP and WTA Tours and more titles on home soil.
Johnson, Dart & Lumsden make doubles final four
Luke Johnson’s impressive start to the 2025 season continued in Montpellier last week as he and Sander Arends reached the semi-final.
The British, Dutch duo battled through the opening two rounds against Czech team Petr Nouza and Patrik Rikl, followed by a 6-2, 6-2 victory over Flavio Cobolli and Jonathan Eysseric.
However, in the semi-finals they were eventually defeated by Dutch partnership Tallon Griekspoor and Bart Stevens 6-2, 6-7(5), 10-6.
Johnson – who won his second ATP title in Hong Kong at the start of January – is now up to a career-high world No.52.
Harriet Dart and Maia Lumsden also made the WTA semi-final in Singapore in their first event together this year.
The Brits staged a comeback win over Amina Anshba and Renata Zarazua 4-6, 6-4, 11-9, before knocking out Cristina Bucsa and Camila Osorio in the quarters.
Dart and Lumsden however were forced to pull out of their semi-final clash with second seeds Desirae Krawczyk and Giuliana Olmos.
Gray adds third title of the season
There were British champions at the Lexus GB Pro Series Glasgow this week – with Brits taking home the men’s singles and men’s doubles trophies.
Alastair Gray had a standout week, winning the men’s singles title without dropping a set.
Gray claimed his ninth ITF singles trophy on Sunday after he defeated fellow Brit Millen Hurrion on the final 6-4, 6-3.
The 26-year-old continues his impressive form so far this season with his third ITF $25k singles title in just over a month.
In the doubles, Finn Bass and James Story came home with the trophy after beating Belgium’s Romain Faucon and Slovakia’s Lukas Pokorny 6-2, 3-6, 10-7.
Bass now has eight ITF doubles titles to his name, while Story added a fourth to his career haul.
Meanwhile in Kuwait, Oliver Crawford made the final of the M15 Zahara but missed out on the title to Lucas Gerch 2-6, 6-4, 6-4.
The Brits lose out to Japan at the Davis Cup
The Lexus Great Britain Davis Cup team lost out to Japan in the first round of qualifiers 3-2.
In a close tie between a new-look British side and the experienced Japanese team, Japan eventually proved too strong in the final singles rubbers.
British No.3 Jacob Fearnley marked his Davis Cup debut with a 6-3, 6-3 win over former world No.4 Kei Nishikori to level the scores at the end of day one, before Neal Skupski and Joe Salisbury gave GB the lead after a 7-6(4), 7-6(3) victory against Yosuke Watanuki and Yuzuki Takeru.
However, player of the tie Yoshihto Nishioka got his second singles win over Fearnley 6-3, 7-6(0) before Nishikori defeated Billy Harris 6-2, 6-3 to finish the tie.
The loss means that Great Britain will have to compete in a World Group I tie later in September for a chance to battle it out once again in the 2026 Davis Cup Qualifiers.
