Melbourne, Jan 31 (IANS) Competing in just their second tour-level event together, Christian Harrison and Neal Skupski lifted the Australian Open men’ doubles trophy in their first major as a team here on Saturday. The American-British duo defeated home favourites Jason Kubler and Marc Polmans 7-6(4), 6-4 inside Rod Laver Arena to earn a one-hour, 49-minute championship-match triumph to claim the trophy.Harrison and Skupski, who both competed at last year’s ATP Finals with different partners, …
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Melbourne, Jan 31 (IANS) Elise Mertens and Zhang Shuai, who last played a Grand Slam together at Wimbledon in 2022, reunited at the Australian Open to win the women’s doubles title.The Belgian-Chinese duo defeated Anna Danilina and Aleksandra Krunic 7-6(4), 6-4 to win what is a ninth Grand Slam doubles title between them in just their seventh career event as a pair.Mertens now has six Grand Slams, three in Australia, while Zhang has three. Zhang lifted her other women’s doubles trophies with the…
Melbourne, Jan 29 (IANS) Hometown wildcards Jason Kubler and Marc Polmans continued their impressive Australian Open, punching their ticket into the men’s doubles final with a three-set 6-2, 3-6, 6-3 semifinal win over Great Britain’s Luke Johnson and Poland’s Jan Zielinski on Thursday.Kubler will be bidding for his second Australian Open doubles crown after triumphing with Rinky Hijikata, also as wildcards, in 2023. Polmans, a semifinalist with Andrew Whittington at Melbourne Park in 2017, was …