Neal Skupski
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| Country (sports) |
 Great Britain |
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| Residence | Liverpool, England |
| Born |
1 December 1989 Liverpool, England |
| Height | 6 ft 0 in (183 cm) |
| Turned pro | 2013 |
| Plays | Right-handed |
| Prize money | $ 156,706 |
| Singles | |
| Career record | 0–0 |
| Career titles | 0 |
| Highest ranking | No. 932 (8 November 2010) |
| Doubles | |
| Career record | 14–26 (ATP (World) Tour and Grand Slam main draw matches, and in Davis Cup) |
| Career titles |
0 11 Challengers, 7 Futures |
| Highest ranking | No. 69 (31 March 2014) |
| Current ranking | No. 81 (17 October 2016) |
| Grand Slam Doubles results | |
| French Open | 1R (2014) |
| Wimbledon | 2R (2016) |
| Mixed doubles | |
| Grand Slam Mixed Doubles results | |
| Wimbledon | QF (2014) |
| Last updated on: 19 October 2016. | |
Neal Skupski (born 1 December 1989[1]) is a British professional tennis player. He is best known as a doubles player. Having played college tennis at the Louisiana State University, where he studied for a degree in sports administration, he turned professional in 2013.[2] Neal is the younger brother of Ken Skupski, who has been ranked in the top 50 of the ATP's doubles rankings.[3]
Career
Early career
Skupski was born in Liverpool and went to King David High School. . He competed in handful of matches in 2010 and 2011, before taking a full year out to finish his degree. He began competing as a professional in 2013, initially playing on the Futures and Challenger tours. After playing with a number of partners, he started competing more frequently with his brother Ken from March 2013 onwards.[3] The pair reached the final of the Aegon Trophy on the Challenger Tour, before winning five Challenger titles in 2013, as of 23 September.[4][5] These wins saw Neal move into the world top 200 in July 2013. At the 2013 Kremlin Cup the Skupski Brothers entered their first ATP World Tour tournament, progressing to the final, where they lost on a tie-break.[6] Following the final, Neal moved into the top 100 for the first time, having been unranked at the start of the season. He ended 2013 ranked 86th in the world.
ATP career finals
Doubles: 1 (1 runner-up)
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| Outcome | No. | Date | Tournament | Surface | Partner | Opponents | Score |
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| Runner-up | 1. | 19 October 2013 | Kremlin Cup, Moscow, Russia |
Hard (i) | Ken Skupski |
 Mikhail Elgin Denis Istomin |
2–6, 6–1, [12–14] |
ATP Challenger Tour titles
Doubles (12)
| No. | Date | Tournament | Surface | Partner | Opponents | Score |
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| 1. | 20 July 2013 | Recanati, Italy | Hard | Ken Skupski | Gianluigi Quinzi Adelchi Virgili |
6–4, 6–2 |
| 2. | 3 August 2013 | Segovia, Spain | Hard | Ken Skupski | Mikhail Elgin Uladzimir Ignatik |
6–3, 6–74, [10–6] |
| 3. | 15 September 2013 | Petange, Luxembourg | Hard (i) | Ken Skupski | Benjamin Becker Tobias Kamke |
6–3, 6–75, [10–7] |
| 4. | 21 September 2013 | Szczecin, Poland | Clay | Ken Skupski | Andrea Arnaboldi Alessandro Giannessi |
6–4, 1–6, [10–7] |
| 5. | 20 September 2014 | Izmir, Turkey | Hard | Ken Skupski | Malek Jaziri Alexander Kudryavtsev |
6–1, 6–4 |
| 6. | 8 November 2014 | Bratislava, Slovakia (1) | Hard (i) | Ken Skupski | Norbert Gombos Adam Pavlásek |
6–3, 7–63 |
| 7. | 12 June 2015 | Surbiton, Great Britain | Grass | Ken Skupski | Marcus Daniell Marcelo Demoliner |
6–3, 6–4 |
| 8. | 11 September 2015 | St. Remy, France (1) | Hard | Ken Skupski | Andrej Martin Igor Zelenay |
6–4, 6–1 |
| 9. | 13 February 2016 | Bergamo, Italy | Hard (i) | Ken Skupski | Nikola Mektić Antonio Šančić |
6–3, 7–5 |
| 10. | 28 February 2016 | Cherbourg, France | Hard (i) | Ken Skupski | Yoshihito Nishioka Aldin Šetkić |
4–6, 6–3, [10–6] |
| 11. | 11 September 2016 | St. Remy, France (2) | Hard | Ken Skupski | David O'Hare Joe Salisbury |
6–75, 6–4, [10–5] |
| 12. | 12 November 2016 | Bratislava, Slovakia (2) | Hard (i) | Ken Skupski | Purav Raja Divij Sharan |
4–6, 6–3, [10–5] |
Doubles performance timeline
To prevent confusion and double counting, information in this table is updated only once a tournament or the player's participation in the tournament has concluded.
Current till 2016 Stockholm Open
| Tournament | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | W–L |
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| Australian Open | A | A | A | A | 0–0 |
| French Open | A | 1R | A | A | 0–1 |
| Wimbledon | Q1 | 1R | 1R | 2R | 1–3 |
| US Open | A | A | A | A | 0–0 |
| Win–Loss | 0–0 | 0–2 | 0–1 | 1–1 | 1–4 |
| Career statistics | |||||
| Titles / Finals | 0 / 1 | 0 / 0 | 0 / 0 | 0 / 0 | 0 / 1 |
| Overall Win–Loss | 3–1 | 5–12 | 2–4 | 4–9 | 14–26 |
| Year-end ranking | 87 | 90 | 103 | ||
References
- ↑ "Neal Skupski Profile". ATP World Tour. Retrieved 4 July 2014.
- ↑ "Skupski (junior) prepping for the pros". Ken Skupski Tennis. Retrieved 5 August 2013.
- 1 2 Prentice, David. "Skupski brothers hope to gatecrash tennis Grand Slams". Liverpool Echo. Retrieved 5 August 2013.
- ↑ "Tennis: Skupski brothers win title". Liverpool Daily Post. Retrieved 5 August 2013.
- ↑ "British Tennis - weekend results round-up, 8th August 2013". LTA. Retrieved 5 August 2013.
- ↑ "Skupskis edged out in final fling". Liverpool Echo. Retrieved 21 October 2013.
External links
- Neal Skupski at the Association of Tennis Professionals
- Neal Skupski at the International Tennis Federation
Association of Tennis Professionals: Top ten British male doubles tennis players as of 12 December 2016 | |
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