Great Britain's Gray and Australian Sweeny seal back-to-back titles
Great Britain’s Alastair Gray and Dane Sweeny of Australia continued their impressive early season from by capturing back-to-back ITF World Tennis Tour titles at M25 Glasgow and M25 Canberra respectively.
Fresh from topping the podium at M25 Shrewsbury seven days earlier, Gray was on the trophy trail once more and dispatched all before him in the Scottish city as he collected the fourth professional crown of his career.
Sealed in style ✅
— Tennis Scotland (@tennisscotland) February 20, 2022
Alastair Gray takes the #M25Glasgow singles title following a final set tie-break! pic.twitter.com/N4X16ZMqvX
The 23-year-old, who was born in Twickenham, defeated Germany’s Henri Squire in the final for his 10th consecutive match-win as he rose to a career-best No. 412 in the ATP Rankings.
Gray, incidentally, achieved a career-high No. 52 in junior tennis and faced Canada’s Felix Auger-Aliassime in the first round at the Junior Championships, Wimbledon in July 2016.
Like Gray, Sweeny has enjoyed success on home soil in recent weeks and claimed his second successive M25 title at Canberra, on this occasion overpowering fellow Australian James McCabe in the final.
Sweeny, who sits at No. 481 in the ATP Rankings having risen 38 places following his victory in the Australian capital, has now won every match since being eliminated from Australian Open Qualifying by Kazakhstan’s Timofei Skatov.
Elsewhere, there were first victories of the season for both Italy’s Riccardo Bonadio and Keegan Smith of the United States at M25 Antalya and M25 Cancun respectively – and both represented the biggest titles of their career so far. Follow all the latest here.