Nice Britain’s Neal Skupski and American companion Christian Harrison claimed the Australian Open males’s doubles title of their first Grand Slam collectively.
Skupski, 36, and Harrison, 31, defeated Australian wildcards Jason Kubler and Marc Polmans 7-6 (7-4) 6-4.
Skupski and Harrison competed collectively for the primary time in Adelaide simply earlier than the Australian Open, attending to the semi-finals.
Liverpudlian Skupski performed with fellow Briton Joe Salisbury all through 2025, reaching finals on the French Open and US Open, earlier than Salisbury took a break from tennis due to anxiousness.
“I am thrilled to recover from the road with Christian. He is a tremendous participant and we’re actually pleased with one another and the way [the partnership is] growing,” Skuspki informed BBC Radio 5 Reside.
“You do not actually understand how a brand new partnership will work out however I knew Christian’s recreation and I had an thought it may work.
“He retains me going – he is just a few years youthful than me – so it is possibly what I wanted.”
It’s a second Grand Slam males’s doubles crown for Skupski, who gained the Wimbledon title alongside Dutchman Wesley Koolhof in 2023.
Additionally it is the third time prior to now 5 Grand Slams that at the least one British participant has triumphed within the males’s doubles.
Henry Patten gained ultimately yr’s Australian Open alongside Finland’s Harri Heliovaara, whereas the all-British pair of Julian Money and Lloyd Glasspool had been victorious at Wimbledon.
