1. Neal Skupski was born on 1 December 1989 and is a British professional tennis player who is a former world No 1 in doubles.
25 Facts About Neal Skupski
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Neal Skupski is a three-time Grand Slam champion, having won the 2023 Wimbledon Championships in men's doubles with Wesley Koolhof, and the 2021 and 2022 Wimbledon Championships in mixed doubles alongside Desirae Krawczyk.
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Koolhof and Skupski were runners-up at the 2022 US Open, and Krawczyk and Skupski reached the final at the 2024 Australian Open and 2024 French Open.
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Neal Skupski has won 17 doubles titles on the ATP Tour, including the Madrid Open, Canadian Open and Paris Masters at Masters 1000 level in 2022.
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Neal Skupski is the younger brother of former tennis player Ken Neal Skupski and the pair regularly competed together until 2021, most notably winning the 2021 Mexican Open.
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Neal Skupski has represented Great Britain in the Davis Cup since 2019 and competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics.
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Neal Skupski was born in Liverpool to Mary Skupski and Ken Skupski Sr.
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Neal Skupski's father is of Polish descent and a retired police officer.
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Neal Skupski competed in a handful of matches in 2010 and 2011, before taking a year out to finish his degree at Louisiana State University, where he studied sports administration as well as playing college tennis.
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Neal Skupski began competing as a professional in 2013, initially playing on the Futures and Challenger Tours.
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At the 2013 Kremlin Cup the Neal Skupski brothers entered their first ATP World Tour tournament, progressing to the final, where they lost on a tie-break.
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Neal Skupski won his first ATP Tour title at the Open Sud de France, partnering again with his brother Ken, their first ATP title together.
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Neal Skupski won his second and biggest title of his career thus far at the ATP 500 2018 Vienna Open partnering with fellow Brit Joe Salisbury.
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Neal Skupski reached the top 15 in doubles on 12 July 2021.
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At the 2021 San Diego Open Neal Skupski won his sixth title and second of the season partnering Joe Salisbury.
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Neal Skupski reached the final of the 2022 Miami Open with Koolhof where they lost to John Isner and Hubert Hurkacz.
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Neal Skupski reached the top 5 in the doubles rankings on 18 July 2022.
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Neal Skupski became joint world No 1 with Koolhof in doubles on 14 November 2022.
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The world No 1 duo Koolhof and Neal Skupski continued their good form reaching yet another Masters final at the 2023 BNP Paribas Open where they lost to Rohan Bopanna and Matthew Ebden.
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Neal Skupski lost to the 10th seeded team of Horacio Zeballos and Marcel Granollers.
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Neal Skupski won his first Grand Slam title at the 2023 Wimbledon Championships with Koolhof and returned to the No 1 ranking.
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Neal Skupski has played five seasons with World TeamTennis starting in 2015 when he made his league debut with the California Dream.
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Neal Skupski has since played four seasons for the New York Empire.
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Neal Skupski was a part of the New York Empire, who claimed the King Trophy during 2020 WTT season at The Greenbrier.
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Neal Skupski has stated that he is an avid and lifelong Liverpool FC fan; he had on occasion asked for Liverpool's scoreline during his concurrent tennis matches.