Christian Harrison (left) and Neal Skupski pose with their trophy after successful the boys’s doubles ultimate match of the US Open. Photograph: AFP
NEW YORK:
Christian Harrison and Neal Skupski gained the US Open males’s doubles title on Saturday, beating Kevin Krawietz and Tim Puetz in straight units so as to add one other main title to their Australian Open crown.
America’s Harrison and Britain’s Skupski beat the German duo 6-4, 7-6 (8/6) to change into one in every of simply three groups this century to bag each the Australian and US Open titles in the identical 12 months, becoming a member of Bob and Mike Bryan and Jamie Murray and Bruno Soares.
Murray and Soares introduced the trophy on the tenth anniversary of their win.
“It has been an excellent 12 months,” Harrison mentioned. “To get two titles like this, I am speechless — and to do it at dwelling.”
Skupski had twice completed runner-up in Flushing Meadows alongside Wesley Koolhof in 2022 and Joe Salisbury final 12 months.
“I am nonetheless in shock,” he mentioned. “Shedding twice and having match factors final 12 months was a troublesome a part of my profession, but it surely’s wonderful what a 12 months does in tennis.”
The duo powered to the title with out dropping a set, changing into the third staff within the Open period to take action after John McEnroe and Peter Fleming in 1983 and the Bryan brothers in 2008 and 2010.