Neal Skupski and Desirae Krawczyk reach French Open Mixed Doubles Final
- Ben Ditchfield

- Jun 5, 2024
- 1 min read
Brit Neal Skupski has reached his first French Open Mixed Doubles Final with his American doubles partner Desirae Krawczyk.
The American has already won the French Open Mixed Doubles title but won it with fellow Brit Joe Salisbury back in 2021, this will be Neal Skupski's first but they are no strangers to winning titles as a pair having won two Wimbledon Mixed Doubles titles back in 2021 and 2022.
Their opponents, seventh seeds Taiwanese Hsieh Su-wei and Poland's Jan Zieliński beat the pair in the Australian Open Mixed Doubles Final earlier this year. Getting their revenge Skupski and Krawczyk won the match 6-1, 6²-7⁷, 10-4 stopping their opponents from getting a single break point.
The pair started the match brilliantly breaking in the second and fourth games of the first set and later going on to win the set comfortably. No breaks of serve in the second set lead to a tiebreak that Hsieh Su-wei and Jan Zieliński won 7-2 after winning five points in a row during it.
Like all mixed doubles matches that are even at one a piece after two sets, the match goes to a first to ten points tiebreak. The fourth seeds winning the tiebreak 10-4 winning six of the last eight points of the tiebreak.
The pair will now face either Norwegian Ulrikke Eikeri and Argentinan Máximo Gonzaléz or German Laura Siegemund and France's Édouard Roger-Vasselin in the Final.



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