{"id":443341,"date":"2026-02-01T19:15:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T19:15:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/443341\/"},"modified":"2026-02-01T19:15:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T19:15:14","slug":"christian-harrison-and-neal-skupski-win-australian-open-mens-doubles-in-first-slam-appearance-tennis-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/443341\/","title":{"rendered":"Christian Harrison and Neal Skupski Win Australian Open Men\u2019s Doubles in first Slam Appearance \u2013 Tennis Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Christian Harrison and Neak Skupski have hit the ground running in 2026.<\/p>\n<p>The American-British tandem defeated the all-Aussie pair of Marc Polmans and Jason Kubler 7-6(4), 6-4 to win their first major title in one hour and 49 minutes. Harrison claims his first major title, while Skupski, the 2023 Wimbledon champion, nets his second.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" data-lazyloaded=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"610\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Pro-Player-Gear-610X150-03.jpg\" alt=\"tennis express pro player gear\" class=\"wp-image-54451\"  data-\/>tennis express pro player gear<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnreal experience,\u201d said Harrison, who made the ATP Finals last year with Evan King. \u201cThis place is unreal to play. The crowds are incredible. For me, though, it was just simple. Just focused on just enjoying the moment with my partner. He brings a lot of experience. His level is just so high, and it really felt easy for me to just play my best tennis. So credit to him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kubler and Polmans rallied from 2-5 down to force a first-set breaker, but Harrison and Skupski won the final four points of the set.<\/p>\n<p>A service break in the third game of set two cracked the door further open for Harrison and Skupski. They saved the only break point they faced in set two and converted their second championship point.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0\u201cIt\u2019s obviously nice to get another Grand Slam. I was very close last year at the US Open and lose narrowly in the French,\u201d Skupski said. \u201cI look back on last year and kind of went over to see where it went wrong in the moments, and I learned from it. Yeah, Christian has given me a new lease of life this year.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Christian Harrison and Neak Skupski have hit the ground running in 2026. The American-British tandem defeated the all-Aussie&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":168779,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":["post-443341","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\/443341","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=443341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443341\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=443341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=443341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=443341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}