A Haverfordwest tennis player has moved up the world rankings after winning two British Masters titles.<\/p>\n
Jeremy Cross, 49, returned to Wimbledon last week to defend his titles at the British Master Grass Court Closed Championships.<\/p>\n
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He won the men\u2019s over-45 singles and doubles events.<\/p>\n
In the singles, he was seeded number one after his 2024 victory.<\/p>\n
He advanced through the initial rounds and faced number three seed, Aidan Graveson, in the final.<\/p>\n
Despite losing the first set 6-2, Cross managed to come back strong, winning the next sets 6-0 and 6-3.<\/p>\n
In the doubles event, he teamed up with Andrew Birse, and the pair defeated Jason Donoghue and Richard Downs in straight sets, 6-3, 6-4, to claim their third consecutive title.<\/p>\n
Following his success, Cross has risen 12 places to 13th in the International Tennis Federation (ITF) world rankings.<\/p>\n
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Cross said: “I\u2019ve had the opportunity to compete in some incredible international tournaments this year in Japan, Turkey, and Guatemala.<\/p>\n
“However, winning at Wimbledon, with all its history and tradition is the best of all of them by far.<\/p>\n
“I go up to the over 50s next year so it was very satisfying to finish this age category with a win and beat all the younger guys.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Haverfordwest tennis player has moved up the world rankings after winning two British Masters titles. Jeremy Cross,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":87987,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[52088,52090,49,48,46411,52091,52087,82,593,614,52089],"class_list":["post-87986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-aidan-graveson","tag-andrew-birse","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-international-tennis-federation","tag-jason-donoghue","tag-jeremy-cross","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-wimbledon","tag-world-rankings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87986\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}