There’s only one thing that Julian Cash and Lloyd Glasspool have failed to get right this year.
In their first full season together, the British duo won the men’s doubles title at Wimbledon and secured the world No. 1 spot at year’s end.
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Their postseason schedules, however, are another matter.
Glasspool will mark his triumphant season with a dinner at a posh London restaurant with his family, team members and sponsors.
But thanks to a pre-booked holiday to Tenerife, Cash will be forced to miss out.
“Everyone will be there except Jules. He’ll be having a drunken boys’ trip,” Glasspool joked.
“There will be a few beers, but it’s mostly golf and paddle. We’ll both party – just separately,” Cash laughed.
The casual exchange demonstrates the camaraderie that helped Cash and Glasspool, 29, 32, become the best men’s tag team in the world.
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Their rise also helped secure Great Britain’s place as the men’s doubles leader.
There are five British players ranked in the world’s top 10. All reached the final four matches of the season-ending ATP Finals, with Cash and Glasspool losing to eventual finalists Joe Salisbury and Neal Skupski.
Briton Henry Patten then triumphed in Turin alongside his Finnish partner Harri Heliovaara.
All five have Grand Slam titles under their belt and at least one of them has won a major in each of the last six seasons.
“We’ve created an amazing culture: we all train together and we have a great vibe when we’re on tour,” Cash said.
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“It shows we can succeed as a group.”
The success reaffirmed how doubles guru Louis Cayer has transformed the quality and depth of the country through his work with the Lawn Tennis Association.
Cayer began coaching in Montreal’s parks before captaining Canada at the Davis Cup.
It was Judy Murray who contacted him in the mid-2000s, asking him to help improve her eldest son Jamie’s game.
When Louis Cayer (centre) joined the LTA in 2007, no Briton ranked in the world’s top 100 (Getty Images)
Armed with video clips, statistics and an eye for detail, Cayer elevated the Scottish game, leading to two Grand Slam men’s doubles titles and world rankings in 2016.
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Cash and Glasspool are the latest beneficiaries of the program implemented by Cayer, a maverick character whom Glasspool describes as an “interesting personality”, “outspoken” and a “gentleman”.
Both men identify four key elements of Cayer’s philosophy: instilling discipline, “black and white” communication, mentally settling them into new situations and providing astute video analysis to be relayed by their coaches.
“We often describe it as the best doubles program in the world,” said British Davis Cup captain Leon Smith.
“It’s unique and it’s one of the most successful programs, I think, that we as a governing body have implemented.
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“The players were guided by the best doubles coach that has ever existed in the world.”
How Cash and Glasspool became the best in the world
The mid-2024 connection was a case of “right place, right time” for Cash and Glasspool.
The start of this season brought titles to Brisbane and Doha, before becoming the first all-British team in the Open era to win the Queen’s Trophy in June.
Three weeks later, they made history by becoming the first British duo in 89 years to win the Wimbledon men’s doubles.
“I always thought we were good enough to win big tournaments, but until you do that, you’re not good enough to win them, basically,” Glasspool said.
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“When we won the Queen’s – a draw with all the top players and as good a standard as a Grand Slam – we realized we could cross the finish line in big moments against the big teams.
“It gave us the belief that we could go on and do it in other tournaments like Wimbledon.”
Glasspool and Cash have earned around £1.7 million each this year, including £340,000 each from their maiden Grand Slam title at Wimbledon (Getty Images)
Winning a Grand Slam was one of their shared goals for 2025. The other was to secure a place at the ATP Finals.
Cash and Glasspool qualified well before winning a seventh and final title of the season in Vienna and an exceptional year was capped by finishing top of the table.
Further reflection on the greatest moment of their careers will have to wait, however.
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Given the intensity of the tennis calendar. both men want to mentally shut down – the celebratory dinner and the winter-sun trip helping them.
Preparations for next season will begin in early December at the National Tennis Center.
“Right now it’s important that we stop,” added Cash, who only started playing doubles full-time in 2022.
“It’s better to stop and not think too much about tennis.
“When you come back to it, a lot of the thinking is sitting down and setting goals for next year.”
