Draper\u2019s Indian Wells triumph & doubles domination\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
British No.1 Jack Draper<\/a> was one of the standout stars during the first half of the season. After starting the year with a career-best fourth round run at the Australian Open \u2013 winning three matches in five sets \u2013 the British star went on to finish runner-up at the ATP 500 Doha, before turning his attention to Indian Wells.\u00a0<\/p>\n Known unofficially as the \u2018fifth Grand Slam\u2019,\u00a0Indian Wells is one of the biggest prizes in the game and Draper went on to become only the second British player to lift the title<\/a> in California.\u00a0<\/p>\n Draper beat Joao Fonseca, Jenson Brooksby, Taylor Fritz, Ben Shelton, Carlos Alcaraz\u00a0and finally\u00a0Holger Rune to get his hands on his first ATP Masters 1000 title.\u00a0He\u2019s\u00a0only the fifth British player to achieve this, after Greg Rusedski, Tim Henman, Andy\u00a0Murray\u00a0and Cam Norrie.\u00a0<\/p>\n Draper also reached the final of the Madrid Open just a month later, but injuries after a semi-final run at the HSBC Championships<\/a> put a hold on his second half of the season.\u00a0<\/p>\n Meanwhile, as well as the Wimbledon title, Cash and Glasspool won a total of seven ATP Tour-level titles\u00a0this year, including the ATP Masters Canada.\u00a0<\/p>\n Patten and\u00a0Heliovaara\u00a0finished the season strong with their first ATP Masters 1000 title in Paris, as well as the ATP 500 Beijing.\u00a0<\/p>\n It was also an impressive season for Britain\u2019s Olivia Nicholls<\/a> on the WTA Doubles Tour. Nicholls and Slovakian partner Tereza\u00a0Mihalikova\u00a0won their best title together on the grass courts at the WTA 500 Berlin<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n Nicholls and\u00a0Mihalikova\u00a0also made the final at Indian Wells<\/a> \u2013 their first WTA 1000 final \u2013 and the British star reached a career-high world No.27.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n British doubles star Luke Johnson<\/a> also added his second and third ATP titles in Hong Kong and Barcelona alongside regular partner Sander Arends.\u00a0<\/p>\n British success in the\u00a0ITF Super Series\u00a0<\/p>\n ITF Super Series events are the biggest wheelchair tennis tournaments in the tour calendar outside of the Grand Slams \u2013 the equivalent of the ATP Masters 1000 and WTA 1000 events.\u00a0<\/p>\n Four British players won Super Series events in 2025. Hewett won Britain\u2019s only Super Series singles title this year in Baton Rouge\u00a0with a\u00a06-0, 6-3 win over Martin De La Puente in the final.\u00a0<\/p>\n Hewett also\u00a0made the Melbourne Open final and\u00a0won\u00a0ITF 1 events in Munich, Rome,\u00a0Paris\u00a0and the Lexus British Open Roehampton<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n Hewett and Reid also won the doubles event in Baton Rouge this year\u00a0as well as the Melbourne Open Super Series.\u00a0<\/p>\n Lucy Shuker<\/a> won her first\u00a0Super Series title since 2018 in Baton Rouge alongside Dutch star Aniek Van Koot.\u00a0The duo\u00a0beat Manami Tanaka and\u00a0Zhenzhen Zhu in the final\u00a06-2, 7-6(1).\u00a0<\/p>\n Finally, Lapthorne closed out his season with the French Riviera Open title \u2013 teaming up with\u00a0Australia\u2019s Heath Davidson.\u00a0<\/p>\n British breakthroughs at WTA 125 tournaments\u00a0<\/p>\n Francesca Jones<\/a> and Katie Boulter<\/a> won the biggest women\u2019s singles titles of the year competing on the WTA 125 Tour.\u00a0<\/p>\n Jones has hit new heights in 2025, breaking into the top 100 for the first time in her career after two titles in\u00a0Contrexeville<\/a>\u00a0and Palermo<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n The Yorkshire-born star won\u00a0the biggest title of her career at the Grand Est Open 88 after defeating home favourite Elsa Jacquemot in the final.\u00a0<\/p>\n Just weeks later, Jones went to the Palermo Ladies Open, winning the title without dropping a set all week and finishing with a 6-3, 6-2 win over Anouk Koevermans.\u00a0<\/p>\n Meanwhile, Boulter won her first career title on clay at the Trophy Clarins in Paris<\/a>, ahead of Roland Garros.\u00a0<\/p>\n Boulter came back to beat Chloe\u00a0Pacquet\u00a0in the final 3-6, 6-2, 6-3 to seal a landmark victory on the clay.\u00a0<\/p>\n Maia Lumsden<\/a> won two WTA 125 doubles titles this season \u2013 the\u00a0L’Open\u00a035 de Saint Malo\u00a0with Makoto Ninomiya and the\u00a0Full Protein Caldas da Rainha Ladies Open\u00a0with fellow Brit Harriet Dart<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n Record 15 ATP Challenger\u00a0titles\u00a0<\/p>\n British players won a record 15 singles titles on the ATP Challenger Tour this season.\u00a0<\/p>\n Leading the charge with four Challenger titles this year was Jan Choinski<\/a> with an impressive four trophies in Troyes, Bunschoten, Bad Waltersdorf and Valencia \u2013 all coming on clay.\u00a0<\/p>\n Jack\u00a0Pinnington\u00a0Jones<\/a> marked his first season on the professional tour with two Challenger trophies \u2013 including the Nottingham Challenger<\/a> on grass.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Patten became only the second British player to win the doubles event\u00a0at the ATP Finals (Salisbury 2022 and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":355869,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":["post-355868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=355868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355868\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/355869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"2025-Olivia-Nicholls-Tereza-Mihalikova-Indian-Wells-runners-up.jpg\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/2025-olivia-nicholls-tereza-mihalikova-indian-wells-runners-up.jpg\")
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