{"id":440761,"date":"2026-01-31T11:46:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T11:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/440761\/"},"modified":"2026-01-31T11:46:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T11:46:07","slug":"christian-harrison-neal-skupski-win-australian-open-mens-doubles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/440761\/","title":{"rendered":"Christian Harrison, Neal Skupski win Australian Open men&#8217;s doubles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jan 31, 2026, 01:31 AM ET<\/p>\n<p>American <a data-player-guid=\"a5000f02-7f69-d6d4-1418-14c82984713d\" href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=2293\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Christian Harrison<\/a> and Britain&#8217;s <a data-player-guid=\"3acfe257-730f-4bf6-37c6-d2f3b89ff7fa\" href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=2699\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Neal Skupski<\/a> combined to win the Australian Open men&#8217;s doubles trophy on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Harrison served an ace on match point to give he and Skupski a win in the men&#8217;s final 7-6 (4), 6-4 over the Australian pair of <a data-player-guid=\"0d1a8975-1a8f-eadb-d56c-d806d0ac1fe5\" href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=1745\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jason Kubler<\/a> and <a data-player-guid=\"74dacbf1-f9fa-c23d-a372-f47534c589bf\" href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/players\/profile?playerId=2624\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Marc Polmans<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Kubler went into the match with a 14-3 doubles record at his home major.<\/p>\n<p>Harrison and Skupski, who both competed at last year&#8217;s ATP Finals with different partners, joined as a team for the first time in Adelaide earlier this month, where they reached the semifinals.<\/p>\n<p>The Associated Press contributed to this report. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jan 31, 2026, 01:31 AM ET American Christian Harrison and Britain&#8217;s Neal Skupski combined to win the Australian&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":440762,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":["post-440761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=440761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440761\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/440762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=440761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}