British pair Joe Salisbury and Neal Skupski spurned three championship factors as they misplaced the US Open males’s doubles last in heartbreaking style 3-6 7-6 (7-4) 7-5 to Spain’s Marcel Granollers and Argentina’s Horacio Zeballos.
Sixth-seeds Salisbury and Skupski have been bidding to grow to be the second all-British pair to triumph at a significant this yr after Julian Money and Lloyd Glasspool’s win at Wimbledon, and the primary since 1903 to take action within the US Open males’s doubles.
Having misplaced the primary set 6-3, fifth-seeded Granollers and Zeballos then levelled the competition by taking a second-set tie-break 7-4.
In one other tight deciding set, Salisbury and Skupski went 40-0 up on Zeballos’ serve when main 5-4 to arrange three championship factors – however they may not seize the golden alternative.
In Skupski’s subsequent service recreation, the Brits then fell right into a 0-40 gap, and although they saved two of the three break factors, a surprising return winner from Granollers clinched the break – and he then held serve for the win.
Salisbury and Skupski, who solely teamed up at the beginning of the season, had each featured within the last of the US Open males’s doubles earlier than – however not on the identical crew.
Salisbury received three successive titles alongside American associate Rajeev Ram from 2021-23, together with beating Skupski and Dutchman Wesley Koolhof.
The British duo reached the ultimate of the French Open males’s doubles earlier this yr, the place they have been additionally overwhelmed by Granollers and Zeballos within the last.
Laurence Doherty and his brother Reginald have been the final all-British pair to carry the lads’s doubles title at Flushing Meadows 123 years in the past.
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