
Hollyoaks star breaks his silence after watching brother's historic Wimbledon win
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FORMER Hollyoaks star Parry Glasspool has congratulated his brother after he became Wimbledon doubles champion.
The actor - who played Harry Thompson in the Channel 4 soap - watched his brother Lloyd and partner Julian Cash overcame alternates Rinky Hijikata of Australia and David Pel from Holland 6-2 7-6 in 82 minutes on a hot afternoon on Centre Court.
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Parry Glasspool has congratulated his brother Lloyd on his Wimbledon win
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Julian Cash and Lloyd Glasspool won the Wimbledon doubles title
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Posting a video of the minute Lloyd and Julian won the match, Parry wrote: 'Who would've thought it!
'Tennis every day for 25 years 🫠🫠 Looks like it paid off!
'MASSIVE CONGRATS to the Little/Big brother for his WIMBLEDON DOUBLES WIN!!
'Crazy scenes.'
Glasspool and Cash have dominated the grass-court season this summer, winning the titles at Queen's and Eastbourne, stretching their unbeaten streak to 14 matches on the surface.
They are the first homegrown duo to take home these silver bowls since Pat Hughes and Raymond Tuckey in 1936.
The two guys shared a selfie on court when the result was confirmed and thanked their respective friends and family.
Glasspool's fiancé is businesswoman and legal expert Sophia Maslin, from London, who has launched a company dedicated to drawing up the final wishes of people who die young.
Maslin was in the players' box, screaming her head off as she always does, as the two lads worked out how to split a £680,000 top prize.
Glasspool said: 'It's incredible. We've had a Brit win last year (Henry Patten) and the year before (Neal Skupski). Now we have given you two Brits. We did our best.
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'I want to thank all of my team. I've had people fly in from America, Italy, though coming from Birmingham is not as impressive.
'My fiancé Sophia has put up with me for the last two weeks, making her stay in bed until I wake up.
'All the LTA staff, who have given us massive support through my whole career, the coaches, the physios. They help us all through the year. We are incredibly grateful.'
Cash said: 'We've played a crazy amount of tennis on the grass. Every match we possibly could.
'A lot of people were talking about this event. There was a lot of pressure on our shoulders.
'The fact we were able to do what everyone was talking about is surreal. This means the world.
'Going into this year we had two goals – the first one was to make Turin, the other one was to win a Slam.
British hopes at Wimbledon
BRITAIN has 23 entrants in this year's Wimbledon - the most since 1984. Here is a list of all those competing at the All England Club and their world rankings.
Men's singles Jack Draper, No. 4
Jacob Fearnley, No. 51
Cameron Norrie, No. 61
Billy Harris, No. 103
Jay Clarke, No. 199
Oliver Crawford, No. 252
Dan Evans, No. 170
Arthur Fery, No. 465
George Loffhagen, No. 302
Johannus Monday, No. 236
Jack Pinnington Jones, No. 282
Henry Searle, No. 409
Oliver Tarvet, No. 719
Women's singles Emma Raducanu, No. 38
Katie Boulter, No. 41
Sonay Kartal, No. 49
Jodie Burrage, No. 164
Harriet Dart, No. 124
Fran Jones, No. 125
Hannah Klugman, No. 577
Mika Stojsavljevic, No. 802
Heather Watson, No. 148
Mimi Xu, No. 318
'A lot of people would have probably not believed us. Neither of us had been past the quarter-final coming into this year.
'Our team backed us. We put so much effort in. Playing doubles, we aren't always on the biggest courts, so to play on the most special court in the world is incredible.'
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