Julian Money and Lloyd Glasspool turned the primary all-British pairing to win the boys’s doubles title at Queen’s within the Open period with victory in a match tie-break over Nikola Mektic and Michael Venus.

Money and Glasspool gained 6-3 6-7 (5-7) 10-6 to earn their third ATP Tour title of the season and their fourth since starting their partnership final yr.

“It has been a terrific yr to this point,” Money mentioned. “It is very nice to start out the grass season robust. Hopefully we will push on to a very good run at Wimbledon.”

The Britons dominated the primary set and have been on track to wrap up victory with a break within the second earlier than Croatia’s Mektic and New Zealand’s Venus fought again to take it to a tie-break, which they edged.

However within the match tie-break – performed to 10 factors and in lieu of a deciding third set – Money and Glasspool acquired an early mini-break after which broke once more earlier than sealing victory on their first match level.

“I believe we have been a extremely robust staff this yr and hopefully he [Julian] can proceed making these tie-breaks so much simpler when he serves and the ball would not come again,” mentioned Glasspool, who was runner-up right here in 2022 with Finland’s Harri Heliovaara.

The victory marks a profitable couple of weeks on grass for the pair after in addition they reached the ultimate in ‘s-Hertogenbosch final weekend and they’ll proceed their warm-up for Wimbledon by competing at Eastbourne subsequent week.

Britons to have gained the doubles title right here embody Andy Murray, Neal Skupski and Jamie Murray however the one different all-British staff to contest the Queen’s males’s doubles last within the Open period (since tennis went skilled in 1968) have been 1978 runners-up David and John Lloyd.

There was extra British doubles success on grass in Germany, the place Olivia Nicholls and her Slovak associate Tereza Mihalikova gained the Berlin Open ladies’s title.

They got here from behind to beat Italians Sara Errani and Jasmine Paolini 4-6 6-2 10-6 to win their first title as a pair.