The 21st century
Great Britain · born Birmingham, 1993 · right-handed · Wimbledon doubles champion 2025 with Julian Cash, the first all-British winners since 1936
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Wimbledon men's doubles title, 2025 with Julian Cash
89
Years since an all-British pair had last won the Wimbledon men's doubles
3
Grass titles in a row in 2025: Queen's, Eastbourne, Wimbledon
17-1
Grass-court record with Cash in 2025
No. 1
Doubles ranking, first reached in August 2025
Lloyd Glasspool was born in Birmingham in 1993 and first played there as a boy, as a way to have fun with his family. He went to the University of Texas from 2012 to 2015 and, in his last college match, won the 2015 NCAA doubles title with the Dane Søren Hess-Olesen, the first NCAA doubles title for Texas since 1944. He turned professional that year, reached No. 282 in singles in 2016 and made his tour debut in doubles at Wimbledon in 2016, on a wildcard with Dan Evans.
He became a doubles specialist and made his name with the Finn Harri Heliövaara, winning his first tour title with him in Marseille in 2021, reaching his first grass final at Queen's in 2022 and the semi-finals of the ATP Finals that year. In 2024 he paired with his fellow Briton Julian Cash, and their title in Tokyo that autumn came in only their second event together.
Their 2025 season was the best by a British pair in the modern game. After titles in Brisbane and Doha they lost the 's-Hertogenbosch final, then won Queen's, Eastbourne and Wimbledon in succession, finishing the grass season 17-1. In August 2025 Glasspool became world No. 1 in doubles, the fourth British man to hold the top ranking, and he made his Davis Cup debut against Poland that September. Defending the Wimbledon title in 2026, he and Cash lost in the quarter-finals to Marcelo Arévalo and Mate Pavić.
| Wimbledon 2025 | Seeded fifth with Cash. Quarter-final: beat the defending champions and second seeds Harri Heliövaara and Henry Patten 6-4, 4-6, 7-6 (10-8). Semi-final: beat the fourth seeds Marcel Granollers and Horacio Zeballos 6-3, 6-4. Final: beat Rinky Hijikata and David Pel 6-2, 7-6 (3) on Centre Court, in the first all-British Wimbledon men's doubles final of the Open Era |
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| Queen's 2025 | With Cash beat the defending champions Nikola Mektić and Michael Venus 6-3, 6-7 (5), 10-6 in the final, the first all-British pair to win the Queen's doubles in the Open Era |
| Grass season 2025 | Lost the 's-Hertogenbosch final to Matthew Ebden and Jordan Thompson in a deciding match tiebreak, then won 14 matches in a row through Queen's, Eastbourne (final against Ariel Behar and Joran Vliegen) and Wimbledon |
| Earlier grass | Wimbledon debut 2016 on a wildcard with Dan Evans; Queen's final 2022 with Harri Heliövaara; Wimbledon third round 2021 and 2022 |
| Wimbledon | ||
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| 2025 | Men's doubles | with Julian Cash |
| Eastbourne | ||
| 2025 | Men's doubles | with Julian Cash |
| Queen's Club | ||
| 2025 | Men's doubles | with Julian Cash |
Leading grass titles only: the grass majors, tour-level grass events since 1968 and the leading grass championships before 1968. †single source; ‡ sources disagree. Roll of champions
"When you say it, it sounds incredible"
The person behind the player.
Birmingham
He began playing in Birmingham as a way to have fun with his family, and only took it more seriously because he liked being out on court on his own. His parents, Neil and Sian, still live in Birmingham. His older brother, Parry, is a former Hollyoaks actor.
Source: LTA player profileTexas, May 2015
His last college match, the NCAA doubles final, was moved indoors because of heavy rain, and a tornado warning held it up for another two hours. He and Søren Hess-Olesen beat Texas Tech's Hugo Dojas and Felipe Soares 6-1, 3-6, 6-3 to give Texas its first NCAA doubles title in 71 years. "We came very strong," Glasspool said. "We made a lot of first serves and a lot of returns."
Source: The Daily TexanWimbledon 2025
British men had won Wimbledon doubles titles in the two previous years, each with a foreign partner, so Glasspool said he had not thought much about the history. "We've given you one Brit the last couple years, now we need to give you two," he told the Centre Court crowd. "So we did our best."
Source: ATP TourOff court
His tennis idol was Marat Safin. He plays golf off a handicap of ten, supports Chelsea, names grass as his favourite surface and the serve as his favourite shot, and has been studying for an Executive MBA at Loughborough University.
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