{"id":397105,"date":"2026-01-29T15:50:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T15:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/397105\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T15:50:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T15:50:09","slug":"australian-open-2026-results-neal-skupski-christian-harrison-reach-mens-doubles-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/397105\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian Open 2026 results: Neal Skupski & Christian Harrison reach men’s doubles final"},"content":{"rendered":"

Great Britain’s Neal Skupski and new American partner Christian Harrison are through to the final of the men’s doubles at the Australian Open.<\/p>\n

Skupski and Harrison, who are the sixth seeds and are playing together at a Grand Slam for the first time, defeated third seeds Marcel Granollers and Horacio Zeballos 6-3 7-6 (9-7).<\/p>\n

Skupski, 36, played alongside fellow Briton Joe Salisbury in all four Grand Slams in 2025. The Spanish-Argentine pair ended their hopes of success in the French Open final, Wimbledon quarter-finals and US Open final.<\/p>\n

Salisbury announced at the end of last season that he was taking a break from tennis because of anxiety<\/a> and Skupski’s new partnership has immediately yielded another Grand Slam final appearance.<\/p>\n

He told BBC Radio 5 Live: “There weren’t really many players around because a lot of doubles guys stick together.<\/p>\n

“I landed on Christian, who I actually thought played the same side as me but he actually wanted to play on the deuce side, so that worked out.<\/p>\n

“We’re very happy with how it’s going so far. No matter what happens on Saturday, we’ll take a lot of confidence and it would be nice to walk away with a trophy.”<\/p>\n

Skupski and Harrison will face Jason Kubler and Marc Polmans in the final, after the Australian wildcards beat Britain’s Luke Johnson and Poland’s Jan Zielinski 6-2 3-6 6-3.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Great Britain’s Neal Skupski and new American partner Christian Harrison are through to the final of the men’s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":397106,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-397105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=397105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397105\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/397106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}