{"id":7929,"date":"2026-01-31T15:10:35","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T09:40:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/2026\/01\/31\/gbs-skupski-wins-australian-open-doubles-title\/"},"modified":"2026-01-31T15:10:35","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T09:40:35","slug":"gbs-skupski-wins-australian-open-doubles-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/2026\/01\/31\/gbs-skupski-wins-australian-open-doubles-title\/","title":{"rendered":"GB&#8217;s Skupski wins Australian Open doubles title"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Published56 minutes ago<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Great Britain&#x27;s Neal Skupski and American partner Christian Harrison claimed the Australian Open men&#x27;s doubles title in their first Grand Slam together.<\/p>\n<p>Skupski, 36, and Harrison, 31, defeated Australian wildcards Jason Kubler and Marc Polmans 7-6 (7-4) 6-4.<\/p>\n<p>Skupski and Harrison competed together for the first time in Adelaide just before the Australian Open, getting to the semi-finals.<\/p>\n<p>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<p>It is a second Grand Slam men&#x27;s doubles crown for Skupski, who won the Wimbledon title alongside Dutchman Wesley Koolhof in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>It is also the third time in the past five Grand Slams that at least one British player has triumphed in the men&#x27;s doubles.<\/p>\n<p>Henry Patten won at last year&#x27;s Australian Open alongside Finland&#x27;s Harri Heliovaara, while the all-British pair of Julian Cash and Lloyd Glasspool were victorious at Wimbledon.<\/p>\n<h2>Related topics<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"\/sport\/tennis\">Tennis<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>More on this story<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"\/sport\/tennis\/articles\/ce9dk3pg0rxo\">\n<p>Slam winner Salisbury to take a break over anxiety<\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Published18 November 2025<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GB&#x27;s Skupski wins Australian Open doubles titleImage source, Getty ImagesImage caption, Christian Harrison (left) and Neal Skupski lost only one set in their six matches at the Australian OpenPub&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":7930,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-decor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7929\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp1.niviyo.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}