VIDEO SHOWS: HIGHLIGHTS FROM AUSTRALIAN OPEN MEN'S DOUBLES FINAL BETWEEN NEAL SKUPSKI & CHRISTIAN HARRISON AND JASON KUBLER & MARC POLMANS / WOMEN'S DOUBLES FINAL BETWEEN ELISE MERTENS & ZHANG SHUAI AND ANNA DANILINA & ALEKSANDRA KRUNIC / TROPHY SHOTS RESENDING WITH COMPLETE SCRIPT SHOWS: MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA (JANUARY 31, 2026) (TENNIS AUSTRALIA – See restrictions) MEN'S DOUBLES FINAL NEAL SKUPSKI & CHRISTIAN HARRISON (GREAT BRITAIN/USA) V JASON KUBLER & MARC POLMANS (AUSTRALIA) 1. NEAL SKUPSKI AND CHRISTIAN HARRISON WALKING INTO COURT 2. JASON KUBLER AND MARC POLMANS WALKING IN FIRST SET TIE-BREAKER 3. SKUPSKI'S SMASH SEALS SET 4. CROWD CHEERING SECOND SET 5. OVERHEAD SMASH BY SKUPSKI 6. FANS CHEERING WITH AMERICAN FLAG 7. MATCH POINT – HARRISON SERVES AN ACE DOWN THE MIDDLE 8. HARRISON CELEBRATES WINNING THE TITLE 9. CROWD CHEERING 10. SKUPSKI SMILING 11. HARRISON HITTING BALL INTO THE STANDS 12. JASON KUBLER AND MARC POLMANS 13. PLAYERS AT NET 14. SKUPSKI AND HARRISON LIFT MEN'S DOUBLES TROPHY WOMEN'S DOUBLES FINAL ELISE MERTENS & ZHANG SHUAI (BELGIUM/CHINA) V ANNA DANILINA & ALEKSANDRA KRUNIC (KAZAKHSTAN/SERBIA) 15. ANNA DANILINA AND ALEKSANDRA KRUNIC WALKING IN 16. ELISE MERTENS AND ZHANG SHUAI WALKING IN FIRST SET TIE-BREAKER 17. BACKHAND WINNER BY ZHANG 18. DANILINA'S BACKHAND VOLLEY FALLS OUT AS MERTENS/ZHANG TAKE SET 19. MERTENS AND ZHANG CELEBRATING AND WALKING BACK SECOND SET 20. BACKHAND VOLLEY WINNER BY ZHANG SEALS MATCH 21. ZHANG CELEBRATING 22. MERTENS AND ZHANG CELEBRATING 23. CHRISTOPHER HEYMAN AND LI SHUO CLAPPING 24. PLAYERS AT NET 25. MERTENS AND ZHANG WITH WOMEN'S DOUBLES TROPHY 26. MERTENS AND ZHANG WITH RUNNERS-UP DANILINA AND KRUNIC STORY: Sixth seeds Neal Skupski and Christian Harrison defeated Australia's wildcard pairing of Jason Kubler and Marc Polmans 7-6(4) 6-4 to capture the Australian Open men's doubles title on Saturday (January 31) in their first Grand Slam event as a team. The British-American duo's victory at Rod Laver Arena gave Harrison his first Grand Slam title and marked Skupski's fourth in doubles and mixed doubles, though his first outside Wimbledon. The partnership is remarkably fresh, as the pair started playing together only two weeks ago in Adelaide after training for a week together in Baton Rouge in December. Earlier, fourth seeds Elise Mertens and Zhang Shuai won the women's doubles title with a 7-6(4) 6-4 victory over Anna Danilina and Aleksandra Krunic, claiming their first Grand Slam trophy as a duo. The victory handed Mertens her sixth Grand Slam title while Zhang won her third but the triumph almost never happened, with the Belgian-Chinese pair forced to save three match points in the second round against teenagers Iva Jovic and Victoria Mboko. (Production: Bhagya Ayyavoo)
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