{"id":293033,"date":"2023-09-18T22:37:23","date_gmt":"2023-09-18T22:37:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportstons.com\/?p=293033"},"modified":"2023-09-18T22:37:23","modified_gmt":"2023-09-18T22:37:23","slug":"britains-davis-cup-hero-neal-skupski-to-play-padel-with-jurgen-klopp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportstons.com\/tennis\/britains-davis-cup-hero-neal-skupski-to-play-padel-with-jurgen-klopp\/","title":{"rendered":"Britain&apos;s Davis Cup hero Neal Skupski to play\u00a0padel with Jurgen Klopp"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Britain&#8217;s Davis Cup hero Neal Skupski to play\u00a0padel with Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp on court at club&#8217;s Kirkby HQ&#8230; after the Reds fan met assistant manager Pep Lijnders at Wimbledon<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Liverpool fan Neal Skupski helped Great Britain beat France in the Davis Cup<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Jurgen Klopp and several members of his staff are racket sports enthusiasts\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>An already good week for Neal Skupski will get even better on Tuesday when he accepts a longtime invitation to play padel with Jurgen Klopp at Liverpool\u2019s training ground.<\/p>\n<p>Reds supporter Skupski, one of Britain\u2019s Davis Cup heroes from Sunday night, is lined up to meet Klopp on the padel court at the club\u2019s Kirkby HQ, and watch the team train. Manager Klopp and several members of his staff are racket sports enthusiasts and have had a court installed for the squad to use.<\/p>\n<p>Skupski and his brother Ken, who is also his coach, were first invited when Liverpool assistant manager Pep Lijnders came to Wimbledon last summer as a spectator.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018It hasn\u2019t been easy to arrange because of our schedules, but I\u2019ve got a week off in Liverpool now and I\u2019m really looking forward to it,\u2019 said Skupski, after he and Dan Evans had saved four match points before clinching a dramatic doubles decider against France in Manchester.<\/p>\n<p>The 2-1 victory in the best-of-three tie saw GB go through as group winners to November\u2019s finals week in Malaga. In Tuesday\u2019s draw they will find out if they meet Serbia or Italy in the quarter-finals.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/18\/21\/75571243-0-image-a-105_1695069342591.jpg\" height=\"427\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Liverpool fan Neal Skupski was one of Britain\u2019s Davis Cup heroes on Sunday night<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/09\/18\/21\/75571575-0-image-a-106_1695070108462.jpg\" height=\"422\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp and several members of his staff are racket sports enthusiasts<\/p>\n<p>Serbia have the ultimate firepower of Novak Djokovic playing in the singles, but their doubles is not especially strong and Italy have more all-round options and depth.<\/p>\n<p>Captain Leon Smith believes the spirit shown in Manchester means GB need not fear anyone.<\/p>\n<p>He said: \u2018The matches are really tight and we\u2019ve seen that in Manchester. Every single tie could have gone either way.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/tennis\/article-12533019\/Britains-Davis-Cup-hero-Neal-Skupski-play-padel-Liverpool-boss-Jurgen-Klopp-court-clubs-Kirkby-HQ-Reds-fan-met-assistant-manager-Pep-Lijnders-Wimbledon.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Britain&#8217;s Davis Cup hero Neal Skupski to play\u00a0padel with Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp on court at club&#8217;s Kirkby HQ&#8230; after <span class=\"more-text\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":293032,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Britain&amp;apos;s Davis Cup hero Neal Skupski to play\u00a0padel with Jurgen Klopp - Sportstons<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/sportstons.com\/tennis\/britains-davis-cup-hero-neal-skupski-to-play-padel-with-jurgen-klopp\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Britain&amp;apos;s Davis Cup hero Neal Skupski to play\u00a0padel with Jurgen Klopp - Sportstons\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Britain&#8217;s Davis Cup hero Neal Skupski to play\u00a0padel with Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp on court at club&#8217;s Kirkby HQ&#8230; 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