Great Britain’s Neal Skupski and American partner Christian Harrison claimed the Australian Open men’s doubles title in their first Grand Slam together.<\/p>\n
Skupski, 36, and Harrison, 31, defeated Australian wildcards Jason Kubler and Marc Polmans 7-6 (7-4) 6-4.<\/p>\n
Skupski and Harrison competed together for the first time in Adelaide just before the Australian Open, getting to the semi-finals.<\/p>\n
Liverpudlian Skupski played with fellow Briton Joe Salisbury throughout 2025, reaching finals at the French Open and US Open, before Salisbury took a break from tennis because of anxiety.<\/p>\n
“I’m thrilled to get over the line with Christian. He’s an amazing player and we’re really happy with each other and how [the partnership is] developing,” Skuspki told BBC Radio 5 Live.<\/p>\n
“You don’t really know how a new partnership will work out but I knew Christian’s game and I had an idea it could work.<\/p>\n
“He keeps me going – he’s a few years younger than me – so it’s maybe what I needed.”<\/p>\n
It is a second Grand Slam men’s doubles crown for Skupski, who won the Wimbledon title alongside Dutchman Wesley Koolhof in 2023.<\/p>\n
It is also the third time in the past five Grand Slams that at least one British player has triumphed in the men’s doubles.<\/p>\n
Henry Patten won at last year’s Australian Open alongside Finland’s Harri Heliovaara, while the all-British pair of Julian Cash and Lloyd Glasspool were victorious at Wimbledon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Great Britain’s Neal Skupski and American partner Christian Harrison claimed the Australian Open men’s doubles title in their…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":400495,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-400494","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\/400494","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=400494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400494\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/400495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}