{"id":6626,"date":"2026-01-23T10:49:52","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T10:49:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/?p=6626"},"modified":"2026-01-23T10:49:52","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T10:49:52","slug":"australian-open-2026-british-top-seeds-julian-cash-and-lloyd-glasspool-suffer-shock-second-round-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/?p=6626","title":{"rendered":"Australian Open 2026: British top seeds Julian Cash and Lloyd Glasspool suffer shock second-round loss"},"content":{"rendered":"


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British top seeds Julian Cash and Lloyd Glasspool suffered a shock second-round defeat by Australian wildcards James McCabe and Li Tu at the Australian Open.<\/b><\/p>\n

Wimbledon champions Cash and Glasspool, who last season became the first all-British pair to secure the year-end world number one men’s doubles ranking, lost 7-6 (7-5) 6-4.<\/p>\n

It leaves fellow Briton Henry Patten and Finnish partner Harri Heliovaara – the defending champions – as the highest remaining seeds in a men’s doubles draw that has already lost five of the top 10 pairings.<\/p>\n

German fifth seeds Kevin Krawietz and Tim Putz, semi-finalists last year, also exited on Friday.<\/p>\n

They joined Italian seventh seeds and 2025 runners-up Andrea Vavassori and Simone Bolelli, eighth seeds Edouard Roger-Vasselin and Hugo Nys, and ninth seeds Francisco Cabral and Lucas Miedler in having their bids ended early.<\/p>\n

But Briton Neal Skupski and American Christian Harrison, the sixth seeds, safely progressed to the third round with a 6-3 6-2 win over Spain’s Pedro Martinez and Jaume Munar.<\/p>\n

Britain’s Marcus Willis, competing alongside Swiss player Jakub Paul, and Luke Johnson, partnering Poland’s Jan Zielinski, will both seek to progress later on Friday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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British top seeds Julian Cash and Lloyd Glasspool suffered a shock second-round defeat by Australian wildcards James McCabe and Li Tu at the Australian Open. Wimbledon champions Cash and Glasspool, who last season became the first all-British pair to secure the year-end world number one men’s doubles ranking, lost 7-6 (7-5) 6-4. It leaves fellow<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6627,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6626\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}