Semi-final spots were up for grabs in the gentlemen’s doubles tournament on Wednesday.

On No. 2 Court, at least one British player was going to advance as Lloyd Glasspool and Julian Cash (main picture) faced No.2 seeds Henry Patten and Finland’s Harri Heliovaara, the defending champions.

In a match dominated by serve, the No.5 seeds Glasspool and Cash saved multiple match points before edging an entertaining third set tie-break. They beat the British/Finnish combination for the third straight time this year, having won in Miami and at Queen’s Club.

“It was a really clean first set,” Glasspool said. “The second followed the same as the first – they hit some good returns.

“We got broken to lose the (second) set and then the third, we managed to hold serve all the way through – we were three match points down at the end. And then third set breaker, we’ve played a lot of breakers against those boys this year.

“We were ready for the pressure situations. I feel like we’ve had a lot of them the last three weeks, and I do really think that got us over the line.”

Glasspool and Cash have now won 36 matches this season; two more will bring them a first Wimbledon title.

They will have watched with interest as their next opponents battled it out in Wednesday’s other quarter-final on No. 3 Court.

The No.6 seeds Joe Salisbury and Neal Skupski – the other all-British duo – faced the No.4 seeds and Roland-Garros champions Marcel Granollers and Horacio Zeballos, of Spain and Argentina, respectively.

Granollers/Zeballos, who have been playing together since 2019, beat the British pair after prevailing in two tie-break sets. They are now on a 10-match winning streak.

“We have a great relationship,” Zeballos said. “We know each other for a long, long time, and I think we care about each other.

“That is so, so important. We have a lot of fun. We try to do our best and be very focused in every practice, in every match, and every tournament that we go to.

“I think the key was to be very focused. All our matches are so, so close. Every match is decided by a few points.”

Granollers added: “It’s amazing now because we put a lot of work (in) together and I think we deserve it.”

Ladies' doubles

In the ladies’ doubles, No.4 seeds Jelena Ostapenko and Su-Wei Hsieh took on the unseeded duo Anna Kalinskaya and Sorana Cirstea. An upset looked on the cards as the underdogs took the first set on a tie-break – but back came ‘Su-Penko’.

Hseih gives opponents no pace, while Ostapenko hits the ball as hard as possible. Confounding their opponents, the duo lost just five games across sets two and three.

Their semi-final opponents will be the No.1 seeds Katerina Siniakova and Taylor Townsend, last year’s Wimbledon champions who went on to take the Australian Open title earlier this year. The top seeds beat Timea Babos and Luisa Stefani 7-6(2), 6-3.

Gentlemen's Wheelchair doubles

The No.1 seeds, Alfie Hewett and Gordon Reid, kept their gentleman’s Wheelchair doubles title defence on track with a straight sets win over Japanese-American duo Takuya Miki and Casey Ratzlaff in the quarter-finals.

The Brits are targeting a 24th Grand Slam title together and a seventh at The Championships, where they love to compete before local fans.

“Wimbledon is such an iconic event in the calendar, but even more so when you’re a Brit player playing at a home Slam in front of all your fans, your friends, your family, the people that have been on the journey with you and past and present,” Hewett said.

“So it's a special week and the main objective always is try and get as deep as possible and obviously try and get the title.”

Girls' singles

In the girls’ singles, No.1 seed Emerson Jones of Australia beat the Spanish qualifier Eugenia Zozaya Menendez on Court 12. Britain’s No.2 seed Hannah Klugman overcame another Spaniard, Charo Esquiva Banuls 6-4, 6-3.

The No.3 seed and the Roland-Garros girls’ champion, Lilli Tagger, remains in contention. The Austrian with a one-handed backhand beat the British wild card Ruby Cooling 6-3, 6-2 on Court 18.

Julieta Pareja, meanwhile, the American No.6 seed who made her WTA Tour debut earlier this year, beat Elizara Yaneva of Bulgaria 6-2, 6-2.

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