To mark the end of another thrilling season, ATPTour.com is unveiling our annual ‘Best Of’ series, which will reflect on the most intriguing rivalries, matches, comebacks, upsets and more. Today we highlight five standout doubles teams from this season.
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Julian Cash & Lloyd Glasspool
Julian Cash and Lloyd Glasspool produced a season that will be etched into British tennis history. In their first full campaign together, they finished as Year-End ATP Doubles No. 1 presented by PIF honours, becoming the first all-British duo to achieve that feat. They won a Tour-leading seven titles in 2025, including a streak of five consecutive trophies between June and August, a run during which they went 22 matches unbeaten.
“It’s been one crazy year, that’s for sure. We put an awful lot of work in in the offseason. Couldn’t have done it without everyone there in the box, also my family up there in the corner,” Cash said when collecting the Year-End No. 1 trophy at the Nitto ATP Finals. “We’ve ticked off so many things this year and I think we both truly believed at the start of the year that this was possible for us.”
One of the defining moments of Cash and Glasspool’s season came at Wimbledon, where they became the first all-British team since 1936 to win a major men’s doubles trophy, sealing a first Grand Slam title for both players.
<img alt=”Julian Cash and Lloyd Glasspool win their first major crown.” style=”width:100%;” src=”/-/media/images/news/2025/07/12/14/05/cash-glasspool-wimbledon-2025-title.jpg?w=100%25″ />Julian Cash and Lloyd Glasspool win their first major title at Wimbledon. Photo: Kirill Kudryavtsev/AFP via Getty Images
Harri Heliovaara & Henry Patten
For Harri Heliovaara and Henry Patten, 2025 told a story of starting strong and finishing even stronger. The British-Finnish pair opened the season by winning its second major title at the Australian Open, then closed the year in dominant fashion — capturing their first ATP Masters 1000 crown in Paris before topping it off with a maiden Nitto ATP Finals triumph in Turin.
“It is hard to describe,” Heliovaara said after winning the Nitto ATP Finals. “The whole week I have looked at the list of winners, with huge winners and I thought, if there was ever going to be my name on that, I am going to be so proud. To be there next to Henry is unreal.”
Having also won the ATP 500 event in Beijing, Heliovaara and Patten ended the season with a 50-20 record, according to the Infosys ATP Win/Loss Index.
Marcel Granollers & Horacio Zeballos
After three previous losses in major finals, Marcel Granollers and Horacio Zeballos turned heartache into redemption not once, but twice in 2025. First came a gripping Roland Garros title-match triumph over Joe Salisbury and Neal Skupski, followed by an even more dramatic win at the US Open, where they saved three championship points to prevail again over the British pair.
“Honestly, I don’t know what to think right now. It was an amazing battle,” said Zeballos at the US Open trophy ceremony. “When you play these kinds of matches, it is so unfair when there is a winner and a loser, because the guys did everything great.
“I can’t believe we just won the US Open. It’s so beautiful to be here with all these people watching us.”
Granollers and Zeballos, who also triumphed in Bucharest, Madrid and Basel, ended the season by making their sixth consecutive appearance at the Nitto ATP Finals.
<img alt=”Marcel Granollers/Horacio Zeballos” style=”width:100%;” src=”/-/media/images/news/2025/09/06/19/12/granollers-zeballos-us-open-2025-trophy-shot.jpg” />Marcel Granollers and Horacio Zeballos win the 2025 US Open men’s doubles title. Photo: Clive Brunskill/Getty Images
Marcelo Arevalo & Mate Pavic
Marcelo Arevalo and Mate Pavic delivered another statement year, highlighted by ATP Masters 1000 titles in Indian Wells, Miami, and Rome to secure a well-earned return to the season finale in Turin. They became only the sixth team in history to complete the ‘Sunshine Double’, winning in Indian Wells and Miami in the same season.
Though Arevalo and Pavic fell short to Granollers and Zeballos in the Madrid final, they bounced back in Rome, where they saved a championship point to defeat Sadio Doumbia and Fabien Reboul — a fitting redemption after losing the 2024 final.
“It means a lot, I’m really emotional now,” Arevalo said. “I love this tournament. Since the first time I played here, I had a connection with the city. I’m just really happy that we were able to win this match, because it was a true battle. Mate and I stayed together.”
Christian Harrison & Evan King
A partnership that didn’t exist at the start of the year became one of the most intriguing success stories. Christian Harrison and Evan King burst onto the scene with ATP 500 titles in Dallas and Acapulco, and added another trophy in Brussels, culminating in Nitto ATP Finals berth — the first all-American duo to reach the season finale since Mike Bryan and Jack Sock won the title in 2018.
Harrison and King showcased their all-court mastery by winning two indoor hard-court titles and reaching the semi-finals on the clay of Roland Garros. They also reached finals in Auckland and Delray Beach after they made their team debut at the ATP Challenger Tour event in Quimper, France, in January.
<img alt=”Evan King and Christian Harrison” style=”width:100%;” src=”/-/media/images/news/2025/02/09/23/42/king-harrison-dallas-2025-final.jpg” />Evan King and Christian Harrison win the ATP 500 title in Dallas. Photo: Sam Hodde/Getty Images
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