Wimbledon: Neal Skupski and Wesley Koolhof advance in men's doubles
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Koolhof (left) and Skupski (right) have won five ATP titles this season
Wimbledon 2022 on the BBC |
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Venue: All England Club Dates: 27 June-10 July |
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Britain's Neal Skupski and Dutch partner Wesley Koolhof reached the third round of the Wimbledon men's doubles with a straight-set win.
The third seeds beat Spain's Pedro Martinez and Australian John-Patrick Smith 7-6 (8-6) 6-2 7-6 (7-4).
Ken Skupski, Neal's brother, also progressed with a straight-set win alongside fellow Briton Jonny O'Mara.
But Britons Alicia Barnett and Olivia Nicholls lost a deciding tie-break in the women's doubles second round.
They were beaten 3-6 6-4 7-6 (10-5) by 15th seeds Nadiia Kichenok of Ukraine and Romania's Raluca Olaru in a match that lasted three hours and nine minutes.
Naiktha Bains and Maia Lumsden lost 6-1 6-4 to Japan's Shuko Aoyama and Chan Hao-Ching of Chinese Taipei, who are seeded eighth.
Neal Skupski, who reached the men's doubles quarter-finals with brother Ken in 2017, and Koolhof hit 13 aces as they continued the impressive recent form that has yielded five ATP titles this year.
Having edged the first-set tie-break, they broke their unseeded opponents twice during a dominant display in the second and closed out the win in another tie-break.
Ken Skupski ensured a double celebration for the brothers as he and O'Mara beat Chilean pair Julio Peralta and Alejandro Tabilo 6-2 6-3 6-4.