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Liverpool Echo
Liverpool Echo
National
Danny Rigg

Scouse lad 'thrown onto tennis court' wins Wimbledon title

A Liverpool lad "thrown onto a tennis court" at the age of three became a two-time Wimbledon champion last week.

This is the second grand slam win for Neal Skupski, who successfully defended his Wimbledon mixed doubles title with Desirae Krawczyk from the USA. Neal, 32, said: "It's quite surreal really. You win it once and you never really think it's going to happen again.

"Then we got to Wimbledon, started playing, and could have lost the first couple of rounds. We weren't playing that great, and then we managed to pull it all together towards the end of the second week. It was a really good two weeks, we really enjoyed it. It was good for my family to be there because they weren't able to go last year because of the pandemic."

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