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<\/p>\n ATP Tour
\n Harrison & Skupski power into Australian Open doubles final<\/p>\n
Home wild cards Kubler\/Polmans earn maiden Grand Slam final as a team<\/p>\n
January 29, 2026<\/p>\n
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2026 Peter Staples<\/p>\n
Christian Harrison and Neal Skupski are competing in their second tournament together.
\n By Jerome Coombe<\/p>\n
Christian Harrison<\/a> and Neal Skupski<\/a> extended the impressive early run of their new partnership on Thursday afternoon at the Australian Open<\/a>, where they secured a place in the men\u2019s doubles final.<\/p>\n The sixth seeds produced a composed performance to defeat Marcel Granollers<\/a> and Horacio Zeballos<\/a> \u2014 a two-time major-winning team in 2025 \u2014 6-3, 7-6(7). Harrison and Skupski, who both competed at last year\u2019s Nitto ATP Finals<\/a> with different partners, joined forces for the first time in Adelaide earlier this month, where they reached the semi-finals.<\/p>\n You May Also Like: Could Harrison & Skupski be the new star doubles team of 2026?<\/a><\/p>\n Standing between them and the title will be Australian wild cards Jason Kubler<\/a> and Marc Polmans<\/a>, who thrilled the home crowd with a 6-2, 3-6, 6-3 victory over Luke Johnson<\/a> and Jan Zielinski<\/a> inside Rod Laver<\/a> Arena.<\/p>\n Kubler owns a 14\u20133 doubles record at his home major, according to the Infosys ATP Win\/Loss Index, highlighted by his title run in 2023 alongside fellow Australian Rinky Hijikata<\/a>. For Polmans, the final marks his best doubles result at Melbourne Park, surpassing his previous Australian Open<\/a> high of a semi-final appearance on debut in 2017 with Andrew Whittington<\/a>.<\/p>\n Saturday\u2019s championship match will mark the first Lexus ATP Head2Head meeting between the two teams.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ATP Tour Harrison & Skupski power into Australian Open doubles final Home wild cards Kubler\/Polmans earn maiden Grand…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":263449,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-263448","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-il","9":"tag-israel","10":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263448\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/263449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}