{"id":424666,"date":"2026-01-23T08:46:06","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T08:46:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/424666\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T08:46:06","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T08:46:06","slug":"australian-open-2026-british-top-seeds-julian-cash-and-lloyd-glasspool-suffer-shock-second-round-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/424666\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian Open 2026: British top seeds Julian Cash and Lloyd Glasspool suffer shock second-round loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">British top seeds Julian Cash and Lloyd Glasspool suffered a shock second-round defeat by Australian wildcards James McCabe and Li Tu at the Australian Open.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wimbledon champions Cash and Glasspool, who last season became the first all-British pair to secure the year-end world number one men&#8217;s doubles ranking, lost 7-6 (7-5) 6-4.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It leaves fellow Briton Henry Patten and Finnish partner Harri Heliovaara &#8211; the defending champions &#8211; as the highest remaining seeds in a men&#8217;s doubles draw that has already lost five of the top 10 pairings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">German fifth seeds Kevin Krawietz and Tim Putz, semi-finalists last year, also exited on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They joined Italian seventh seeds and 2025 runners-up Andrea Vavassori and Simone Bolelli, eighth seeds Edouard Roger-Vasselin and Hugo Nys, and ninth seeds Francisco Cabral and Lucas Miedler in having their bids ended early.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But Briton Neal Skupski and American Christian Harrison, the sixth seeds, safely progressed to the third round with a 6-3 6-2 win over Spain&#8217;s Pedro Martinez and Jaume Munar.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Britain&#8217;s Marcus Willis, competing alongside Swiss player Jakub Paul, and Luke Johnson, partnering Poland&#8217;s Jan Zielinski, will both seek to progress later on Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"British top seeds Julian Cash and Lloyd Glasspool suffered a shock second-round defeat by Australian wildcards James McCabe&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":424667,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":["post-424666","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\/424666","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=424666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424666\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/424667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=424666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=424666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=424666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}