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Doubles pairs keep British hopes alive at Wimbledon as the Anglo-Dutch partnership of Neal Skupski and Wesley Koolhof reach the quarter-finals - and Naiktha Bains and Maia Lumsden break a 40-year duck

There's no ostentation about the pair who are quietly carrying the hope of British success into the closing days of the championships. The matching red rackets, perhaps, but the Anglo-Dutch men's doubles partnership of Neal Skupski and Wesley Koolhof are otherwise making their way with minimal fuss, as they tend to do.

Skupski, from Liverpool, should be a more familiar name than he actually is, given the way that he has so consistently carried the country's torch when others are extinguished here. He's been part of the mixed doubles winning pairing in the past two years.