Francisco Cabral (tennis)

2021-25: Record Six Challengers in a year, historic ATP title, Olympics & Top 20

Since 2021 Cabral focused his professional career on doubles and in that year he won a record of six Challenger doubles titles partnering with Nuno Borges.^[4]

In May 2022, he reached the top 100 in doubles after a semifinal ^[5][6] and first ATP 250 final showing at the 2022 Estoril Open with Borges as a wildcard pair, where they defeated the top seeded pair Jamie Murray and Michael Venus en route. They became the first Portuguese pair to reach and win the final at their home tournament, doing so on their ATP doubles debut.^{[7][8][9][10]} In July, Francisco Cabral won his second title at the 2022 Swiss Open in Gstaad, this time pairing with Tomislav Brkić.^[11]

In July 2025, Cabral won his third ATP Tour title at the 2025 Swiss Open in Gstaad, pairing with Lucas Miedler.^[12] In August, Cabral partnering with Lucas Miedler, made it to his seventh ATP 250 final at the Winston Salem Open.^[13] In September, Cabral and Miedler won the Hangzhou Open in China beating Nicolás Barrientos and David Pel in the final.^{[citation needed]}

In October, Cabral with Miedler reached his ninth doubles final at the ATP 500 2025 Erste Bank Open, but lost to Julian Cash and Lloyd Glasspool.^[14] Cabral and Miedler closed the 2025 season with a third title in Athens defeating Santiago González and David Pel in the final, ending in the ATP Live Doubles Teams Race in 11th position. As a result Cabral finished the season ranked in the top 20 in the ATP doubles rankings, a career-high reached on 3 November 2025.^[15]

Doubles: 11 (6 titles, 5 runners-up)

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Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Win	1–0	Apr 2022	Estoril Open, Portugal	250 Series	Clay	Nuno Borges	Máximo González André Göransson	6–2, 6–3
Win	2–0	Jul 2022	Swiss Open Gstaad, Switzerland	250 Series	Clay	Tomislav Brkić	Robin Haase Philipp Oswald	6–4, 6–4
Loss	2–1	Apr 2023	Banja Luka Open, Bosnia and Herzegovina	250 Series	Clay	Aleksandr Nedovyesov	Jamie Murray Michael Venus	5–7, 2–6
Loss	2–2	Jul 2023	Swedish Open, Sweden	250 Series	Clay	Rafael Matos	Gonzalo Escobar Aleksandr Nedovyesov	2–6, 2–6
Loss	2–3	Sep 2023	Chengdu Open, China	250 Series	Hard	Rafael Matos	Sadio Doumbia Fabien Reboul	6–4, 5–7, [7–10]
Win	3–3	Jul 2025	Swiss Open Gstaad, Switzerland	250 Series	Clay	Lucas Miedler	Hendrik Jebens Albano Olivetti	6–7(4–7), 7–6(7–4), [10–3]
Loss	3–4	Aug 2025	Winston-Salem Open, United States	250 Series	Hard	Lucas Miedler	Rafael Matos Marcelo Melo	6–4, 4–6, [8–10]
Win	4–4	Sep 2025	Hangzhou Open, China	250 Series	Hard	Lucas Miedler	Nicolás Barrientos David Pel	6–4, 6–4
Loss	4–5	Oct 2025	Vienna Open, Austria	500 Series	Hard (i)	Lucas Miedler	Julian Cash Lloyd Glasspool	1–6, 6–7(6–8)
Win	5–5	Nov 2025	Hellenic Championship, Greece	250 Series	Hard (i)	Lucas Miedler	Santiago González David Pel	4–6, 6–3, [10–3]
Win	6–5	Jan 2026	Brisbane International, Australia	250 Series	Hard	Lucas Miedler	Julian Cash Lloyd Glasspool	6–3, 3–6, [10–8]

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Doubles: 24 (15 titles, 9 runner-ups)

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Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Win	1–0	Apr 2021	Oeiras, Portugal	Clay	Nuno Borges	Pavel Kotov Tseng Chun-hsin	6–1, 6–2
Win	2–0	Sep 2021	Braga, Portugal	Clay	Nuno Borges	Jesper de Jong Bart Stevens	6–3, 6–7(4–7), [10–5]
Loss	2–1	Oct 2021	Lisbon, Portugal	Clay	Nuno Borges	Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan Purav Raja	6–7(5–7), 3–6
Loss	2–2	Oct 2021	Barcelona, Spain	Clay	Nuno Borges	Harri Heliövaara Roman Jebavý	4–6, 3–6
Win	3–2	Nov 2021	Tenerife, Spain	Hard	Nuno Borges	Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan Purav Raja	6–3, 6–4
Win	4–2	Nov 2021	Manama, Bahrain	Hard	Nuno Borges	Maximilian Neuchrist Michail Pervolarakis	7–5, 6–7(5–7), [10–8]
Win	5–2	Dec 2021	Maia, Portugal	Clay (i)	Nuno Borges	Andrej Martin Gonçalo Oliveira	6–3, 6–4
Win	6–2	Dec 2021	Maia, Portugal (2)	Clay (i)	Nuno Borges	Piotr Matuszewski David Pichler	6–4, 7–5
Win	7–2	Apr 2022	Oeiras, Portugal (2)	Clay	Nuno Borges	Sanjar Fayziev Markos Kalovelonis	6–3, 6–0
Win	8–2	Apr 2022	Oeiras, Portugal (3)	Clay	Nuno Borges	Zdeněk Kolář Adam Pavlásek	6–4, 6–0
Win	9–2	Apr 2022	Prague, Czech Republic	Clay	Szymon Walków	Tristan Lamasine Lucas Pouille	6–2, 7–6(14–12)
Win	10–2	May 2022	Prague, Czech Republic	Clay	Nuno Borges	Andrew Paulson Adam Pavlásek	6–4, 6–7(3–7), [10–5]
Loss	10–3	Jul 2022	Porto, Portugal	Hard	Nuno Borges	Yuki Bhambri Saketh Myneni	4–6, 6–3, [6–10]
Loss	10–4	Dec 2022	Maia, Portugal	Clay (i)	Nuno Borges	Julian Cash Henry Patten	3–6, 6–3, [8–10]
Win	11–4	Apr 2023	Rome, Italy	Clay	Nicolás Barrientos	Andrey Golubev Denys Molchanov	6–3, 6–1
Loss	11–5	May 2023	Aix-en-Provence, France	Clay	Nuno Borges	Jason Kubler John Peers	7–6(7–5), 4–6, [7–10]
Loss	11–6	Nov 2023	Bergamo, Italy	Hard (i)	Henry Patten	Evan King Brandon Nakashima	4–6, 6–7(1–7)
Win	12–6	Oct 2024	Braga, Portugal (2)	Clay	Théo Arribagé	Marco Bortolotti Daniel Cukierman	6–3, 6–4
Loss	12–7	Nov 2024	Rovereto, Italy	Hard (i)	Théo Arribagé	Sriram Balaji Rithvik Choudary Bollipalli	3–6, 6–2, [10–12]
Win	13–7	Nov 2024	Maia, Portugal (3)	Clay (i)	Théo Arribagé	Kimmer Coppejans Sergio Martos Gornés	6–1, 3–6, [10–5]
Win	14–7	Apr 2025	Madrid, Spain	Clay	Lucas Miedler	Jakub Paul David Pel	7–6(7–2), 6–4
Loss	14–8	Apr 2025	Oeiras, Portugal	Clay	Lucas Miedler	Karol Drzewiecki Piotr Matuszewski	4–6, 6–3, [8–10]
Loss	14–9	May 2025	Estoril, Portugal	Clay	Lucas Miedler	Ariel Behar Joran Vliegen	5–7, 3–6
Win	15–9	May 2025	Bordeaux, France	Clay	Lucas Miedler	Yuki Bhambri Robert Galloway	7–6(7–1), 7–6(7–2)

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