Gb's Cash And Glasspool Into Wimbledon Semi-finals

British brace Julian Cash and Lloyd Glasspool held their nervus successful a tense final-set tie-break to sound retired defending men's doubles champions Henry Patten and Harri Heliovaara to scope nan semi-finals astatine Wimbledon.

Fifth seeds Cash and Glasspool, who are chasing their first Grand Slam trophy arsenic a pairing, won 6-4 4-6 7-6 (10-8).

The brace arrived astatine Wimbledon successful trophy-winning form, having go nan first all-British pairing to triumph nan men's doubles title astatine Queen's successful nan Open era, earlier adding nan Eastbourne title to their collection.

There won't beryllium an each British semi-final conflict aft Joe Salisbury and Neal Skupski mislaid 7-6 (8-6) 7-6 (7-3) to Marcel Granollers and Horacio Zeballos.

Two-time awesome winners Briton Patten and Finland's Heliovaara were fixed a walkover aft France's Pierre-Hugues Herbert and Australian team-mate Jordan Thompson, who had been suffering pinch a backmost injury, withdrew from their last-16 tie.

That should person meant they were caller for this Court-One encounter, but were surgery astatine 4-4 and Cash and Glasspool held to emotion to return nan first set.

The reigning champions fought their measurement backmost into nan brushwood by taking nan 2nd group and nan pairs battled to a tie-break successful nan decider.

There, Glasspool secured a mini-break to put them 9-8 up earlier he past served nan lucifer retired to unafraid nan win.