{"id":17459,"date":"2026-01-31T07:37:44","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T07:37:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=17459"},"modified":"2026-01-31T07:37:44","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T07:37:44","slug":"australian-open-2026-gbs-neal-skupski-and-christian-harrison-win-mens-doubles-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=17459","title":{"rendered":"Australian Open 2026: GB&#8217;s Neal Skupski and Christian Harrison win men&#8217;s doubles title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Great Britain&#8217;s Neal Skupski and American partner Christian Harrison claimed the Australian Open men&#8217;s doubles title in their first Grand Slam together.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Skupski, 36, and Harrison, 31, defeated Australian wildcards Jason Kubler and Marc Polmans 7-6 (7-4) 6-4.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Skupski and Harrison competed together for the first time in Adelaide just before the Australian Open, getting to the semi-finals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">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 class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It is a second Grand Slam men&#8217;s doubles crown for Skupski, who won the Wimbledon title alongside Dutchman Wesley Koolhof in 2023.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It is also the third time in the past five Grand Slams that at least one British player has triumphed in the men&#8217;s doubles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Henry Patten won at last year&#8217;s Australian Open alongside Finland&#8217;s Harri Heliovaara, while the all-British pair of Julian Cash and Lloyd Glasspool were victorious at Wimbledon.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>#Australian #Open #GBs #Neal #Skupski #Christian #Harrison #win #mens #doubles #title<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Great Britain&#8217;s Neal Sku&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17460,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[242],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17459"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17459\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}