Salisbury/Skupski find late surge for Roland Garros final spot

Joe Salisbury and Neal Skupski produced a stunning late sprint to prevail in a marathon semi-final clash on Friday at Roland Garros.

The British pair downed Christian Harrison and Evan King 6-7(5), 6-3, 7-6(10-7) to advance to their first major final as a team. Salisbury and Skupski were 3/6 down in the deciding-set tie-break but won seven of the final eight points to cap a two-hour, 40-minute triumph.

Eighth seeds Salisbury and Skupski converted three of six break points they earned, according to Infosys Stats, to earn their first win in three Lexus ATP Head2Head meetings with Americans Harrison and King.

Currently up two spots to seventh in the PIF ATP Live Doubles Teams as a result of their Roland Garros run so far, Salisbury and Skupski will take on Marcel Granollers and Horacio Zeballos in the championship match. The British pair triumphed in the only previous tour-level meeting between the two teams, in the Rome quarter-finals last month.

Granollers/Zeballos Move To Brink Of First Major Title
Marcel Granollers and Horacio Zeballos will have another shot at capturing their first major as a team at Roland Garros, where they rallied into the championship match.

The fifth seeds dug deep for a 6-7(5), 6-3, 6-4 victory over Hugo Nys and Edouard Roger-Vasselin Thursday afternoon to reach their fourth Grand Slam final together, and first at the clay-court major. Granollers and Zeballos dropped their first set of the tournament, but produced a clinical response to advance after two hours, 27 minutes.

Granollers and Zeballos made finals at the US Open in 2019 and at Wimbledon in 2021 and 2023, but are yet to get over the line at a Grand Slam tournament. With its run in the French capital this week, the Spanish-Argentine duo is up two spots to No. 6 in the PIF ATP Live Doubles Teams Rankings.

They await the winner of Friday’s semi-final between Joe Salisbury/Neal Skupski and Christian Harrison/Evan King.

Granollers/Zeballos seal SF berth
Granollers and Zeballos reached the semi-finals at Roland Garros for the fourth consecutive year on Wednesday when they overcame Ivan Dodig and Orlando Luz 6-2, 7-6(4).

The fifth seeds saved all three break points they faced, according to Infosys Stats, en route to a one-hour, 59-minute triumph. Chasing their first major as a team, Granollers and Zeballos will try to reach the title match in Paris for the first time when they meet Hugo Nys and Edouard Roger-Vasselin. The Monegasque-French duo beat Sander Arends and Luke Johnson 6-4, 3-6, 6-2.

Granollers and Zeballos have tasted success on clay this year. They won the trophy at the ATP Masters 1000 event in Madrid and clinched the crown at the ATP 250 in Bucharest. Nys and Roger-Vasselin's best result as a team on clay came this year in Marrakech, when they reached the final.

Salisbury/Skupski battle back for SF spot
Joe Salisbury and Neal Skupski bounced back from their first setback of 2025 Roland Garros in style on Tuesday afternoon in Paris.

The eighth-seeded duo dropped its first set of the tournament before rallying to a 6-7(4), 6-4, 6-4 quarter-final victory against Matthew Ebden and John Peers on Court Simonne-Mathieu. Salisbury and Skupski converted four of nine break points they earned in the two-hour, 35-minute encounter, according to Infosys Stats.

Now into the last four on their team debut at Roland Garros, Britons Salisbury and Skupski will face ninth seeds Christian Harrison and Evan King for a spot in the championship match. The American pair Harrison and King snapped the nine-match Grand Slam winning streak of Australian Open winners Harri Heliovaara and Henry Patten with a 6-3, 6-4 triumph.

Harrison, whose brother Ryan Harrison won the Roland Garros doubles trophy in 2017, and King have impressed since becoming permanent partners in late January and they are now into their first major semi-final together. The pair is up two spots to third in the PIF ATP Live Doubles Teams Rankings as a result of its Paris run so far.