Julian Cash and Lloyd Glasspool made history on Saturday by winning the Wimbledon title, marking a significant achievement for British tennis. The pair’s victory extended their impressive 14-match winning streak, which includes wins at Queen’s Club and Eastbourne. This triumph makes them the first all-British team to secure a major men’s doubles title since 1936.
“We’ve played a crazy amount of tennis on the grass, every match we possibly could,” Cash remarked during the trophy ceremony. “A lot of people were talking coming into this event, there was a lot of pressure on our shoulders. And the fact that we are able to do what everyone was talking about is surreal.”
Glasspool expressed his sentiments as well: “We had a Brit win last year, and the year before, so I didn’t think too much of it. We’ve given you one Brit the last couple years, now we need to give you two. So we did our best.”
The duo faced challenges along their path to victory; notably in the quarter-finals where they saved three match points against defending champions Harri Heliovaara and Henry Patten. Now ranked first in the PIF ATP Live Doubles Rankings with five trophies this season, they are setting their sights on making their debut at the Nitto ATP Finals.
“It’s something we spoke about coming into the year. We had two goals. The first one was making it to Turin and the other one was to win a Slam,” said Cash. “A lot of people probably wouldn’t have believed us, neither of us had been past a quarter-final coming into this year. But our team backed us the whole way. We put so much effort in. To do it here, couldn’t mean more honestly.”
Their performance in front of a packed Centre Court audience was strong, losing only five points behind their first serve (33/38) to clinch victory in just over an hour.