Neal Skupski and his Dutch partner Wesley Koolhof defeated Marcel Granollers of Spain and Horacio Zeballos of Argentina 6-4, 6-4 to win the men’s doubles title at Wimbledon. With American Desirae Krawczyk, the British right-hander won the mixed doubles titles in 2021 and 2022.
Skupski, 33, is the first domestic player to win a back-to-back hat-trick at Wimbledon since Dorothy Round won the 1937 women’s singles and mixed doubles titles the previous two years.
Who is Neal Skupski?
Neal Skupski is a professional tennis player from the United Kingdom. He specializes in the doubles format. He has been ranked as high as world No. 1 in doubles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP), a position he first held in November 2022. Skupski also achieved his best singles position of 932 in the world in November 2010.
Skupski and Desirae Krawczyk won the Wimbledon Championships in 2021 and 2022, making Skupski a two-time Grand Slam champion in mixed doubles. He has won 14 ATP Tour doubles titles in his career, including three in 2022 with partner Wesley Koolhof at the Madrid Open, Canadian Open, and Paris Masters.
He became the third British player, following Jamie Murray and Joe Salisbury, to hold the top doubles ranking in 2022 when the pair placed second at the US Open and ended the year as the joint-world No 1.
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Skupski was born in Liverpool and attended King David High School. His mother Mary played golf, and his father Ken Sr. is a former police officer of Polish ancestry. Neal is Ken Skupski Jr.’s younger brother, and they have been playing together regularly since 2013. The pair competed together until 2021, winning the Mexican Open in 2021.
He participated in a few matches in 2010 and 2011, then took a year off to complete his degree at Louisiana State University, where he also played college tennis and studied sports administration. In 2013, he turned professional. Skupski also competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics and has represented the Great Britain team in the Davis Cup since 2019.
