When Julian Money despatched down the irretrievable overhead smash that sealed a historic Wimbledon males’s doubles title, his accomplice Lloyd Glasspool’s response was considerably surprising.Changing into a champion on the All England Membership often entails falling flat in your again on the turf, tears of pleasure or dashing to the teaching field to embrace family members.However for Glasspool, it was a way more muted affair.”My celebration is not any celebration,” he instructed BBC Sport.Whereas Money turned to his doubles accomplice and raised a fist earlier than leaping within the air, Glasspool merely walked in direction of the web to shake their opponents’ palms with a clean look on his face.”It is a bit of flip on the norm,” Glasspool stated.”It stems from once I used to play with [Harri] Heliovaara – the winner right here final yr – as a result of he was identified for his huge celebrations.”I all the time felt I’ve bought to be the other in any other case it is simply an excessive amount of and it is simply caught with me. I type of prefer it – I am going to maintain it going.”Money and Glasspool made historical past by changing into the primary all-British pair to win the boys’s doubles title at Wimbledon for 89 years with a 6-2 7-6 (7-3) victory over unseeded workforce Rinky Hijikata and David Pel.They promised to make up for it with celebrations off the courtroom however Money joked that Glasspool “is a bit of bit stiff” however “hopefully he’ll have a drink after this”.
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