Wimbledon: Neal Skupski and Desirae Krawczyk retain mixed doubles title

The mixed doubles title was retained by Britain's Neal Skupski and American Desirae Krawczyk.

The first set was close before the two teams dominated the second to win.

They are the first pair to defend the title in a long time.

In the final, they beat Britons.

He claimed his second Grand Slam doubles title. My parents are here. Last year, they weren't able to come.

It's only been a team for two weeks but we'll have to go for three next year if she plays with me.

In the men's doubles semi-finals, the Australians played a five-set epic against the Britons and Americans.

The mixed doubles final used to close out the tournament on a Sunday, but was moved to three days this year.

The schedulers probably didn't think the switch would cause one player to spend almost six hours on court in a single day, but that's what happened.

After playing for four hours and 20 minutes in the men's doubles semi, he was given a 90 minute rest before going to Centre Court to play the mixed final.

There was a 17 minute game in the opening set that did not help the cause.

The US Open women's singles champion and her partner held to love three times, only to be broken at 4-5 down by the second seeds.

The match was decided by a break to love in the second set that was the result of a foot fault by the other team.

High-quality match ends in agonising defeat for Salisbury & Ram

Salisbury and Ram missed out on a chance to win the Wimbledon men's doubles title.

The top seeds had been defeated by the Australians in the last game.

Salisbury and Ram dominated the first two sets and were on their way to victory.

They were just two games away from victory after coming back from a break down in the third.

In a high quality match, the Britons were taken to deuce eight times in a marathon service game that took almost 15 minutes and they were able to hold and edge closer to victory.

The Australians forced a tie-break and got an early mini-break before being pegged back by Salisbury and Ram.

Some on a packed Court One could hardly bear to watch as they came and went, with a Salisbury double fault, a video challenge that showed a shot was out and a lucky rebound off the racquet frame ruining their chances.

The Australians broke in the 10th game of the 10th game to set up a decider after Ram netted a powerful Ebden return.

Despite having a couple of break-back chances, Salisbury and Ram couldn't find a way back after falling behind early in the fifth.

The Britons went long on the Australians' second match point, causing wild chest bumps and jumping from the 14th seeds, who were on the verge of a straight-set defeat.

Salisbury and Ram have lost three Wimbledon semi-finals in a row.

Salisbury said that they couldn't have been any closer to being in the final because they both messed it up.

It is difficult. The rest of the match we played some bad points, but on match point we played two bad ones.

You have to get into the final. You have to do better than that at that time.

In the other men's doubles semi-finals, the defending champions, Nikola Mektic and mate Pavic, defeated Juan Sebastian Cabal and Robert Farah in a fifth set tie-break.

After four hours and 22 minutes, the second seeds from Croatia, Mektic and Pavic, defeated the sixth seeds to set up a final against the seventh seeds.

Pavic cut teammate Mektic's lip with his racquet as both players went for a ball in the third set.

It led Mektic to take a selfies of his injury to the amusement of the crowd and his opponent, who ran over to join him and Pavic for a picture.