US Open 2025
Dates: August 24 through September 7 in Flushing Meadows, New York
In the US Open men’s doubles final, British duo Joe Salisbury and Neal Skupski lost to Marcel Granollers and Horacio Zeballos, who had scored three championship points.
Salisbury and Skupski wanted to win their first major together and become the first all-British pair to do so since 1903.
However, they fell to the Spanish Granollers and the Argentine Zeballos, who also defeated them in the French Open final earlier this year, 7-6 (7-4) 7-5.
“I’m starting to dislike you guys”! Skupski addressed the winning team.
The opening set featured the Englishmen, who only started dating at the start of 2025.
Salisbury and Skupski were cut at 5-3 after a subpar service match from Zeballos before Liverpudlian Skupski served the break.
They had a good chance of getting the job done in two sets and a little revenge for July’s parity in Paris when they led 0-40 at 3-3 in the second set, but Granollers held on and held on.
After collecting 15 consecutive points on serve, Salisbury struggled in the second set tie-break, dropping serve twice, to decide the outcome.
Salisbury and Skupski showed resilience at first, holding their own against each other until the third set, and they did not have to defend a break point.
When Salisbury and Skupski realized they had three championship points on their opponents’ serve, they had a 5-4 lead. However, a string of subpar returns cost them.
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Source: BBC
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