KYLE EDMUND defeated Dan Evans in the first all-British Challenger final for more than a decade.
British players have found success hard to come by in recent years in the very competitive second tier of men's tennis but 21-year-old Edmund has now collected four Challenger titles.
The Yorkshireman, part of Great Britain's victorious Davis Cup team in November, has begun 2016 in impressive fashion and was too strong for Evans in Dallas, winning 6-3 6-2.
The result should take Edmund past his previous career-high ranking of 88 and also puts him firmly in pole position for next month's Davis Cup tie against Japan in Evans' home city of Birmingham.
It has also been a terrific week for Evans, who qualified for the Australian Open last month and will be close to a place in the world's top 150 when the rankings are updated on Monday.
The only previous all-British Challenger final in the past 20 years came in 2005, when Alex Bogdanovic beat Mark Hilton.
Meanwhile, the British No.3 Naomi Broady will break into the women's top 100 for the first time after she beat Robin Anderson 6-7, 6-0, 6-2 in the final of the Dow Corning Tennis Classic in Midland, Michigan, last night.
Broady's brother, Liam, the top seed in the men's AEGON GB Pro-series, which doubles as the Scottish Indoor Championships defeated Adrien Bossel of Switzerland in a three-set final which finished 6-3, 4-6, 6-2 at Scotstoun Leisure Centre.
A full house turned out to watch local girl Maia Lumsden lose out to Germany's Anna Zaja in the women's final. The German took the opening set 6-4 before recovering from 1-3 in the second set, not dropping another game to take the title 6-4, 6-3. The champion said after the match. "I enjoyed playing in Glasgow so I feel great."
Elsewhere, Richard Gasquet claimed his third Open Sud de France title with a 7-5 6-4 victory over fellow Frenchman Paul-Henri Mathieu.
Gasquet's 13th ATP World Tour title came after Mathieu had swept into a 3-0 first set lead.
The world number 10, who has not lost to Mathieu for seven years, recovered to 3-3.
But Mathieu saved two break points in a 12-point seventh game and then broke to serve for the first set at 5-4.
However, the momentum shifted again as Mathieu won only three of the next 18 points and Gasquet closed out the first set in 55 minutes.
Gasquet grew in confidence and could have taken a 5-2 lead, but was later forced to save two break points in a 12-point eighth game.
But Gasquet was not to be denied and completed his first title of 2016 in one hour and 48 minutes.
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