The 21st century

Desirae Krawczyk

United States · born Rancho Mirage, California, 1994 · left-handed · twice Wimbledon mixed doubles champion with Neal Skupski

Desirae Krawczyk
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2

Wimbledon mixed doubles titles in a row, 2021 and 2022

4

Grand Slam mixed doubles titles, three of them in 2021

3

Wimbledon women's doubles semi-finals, 2022, 2024 and 2025

1997

Last time a pair had retained the Wimbledon mixed title before 2022

7

Career-high doubles ranking, August 2024

Playing career

Krawczyk was born in Rancho Mirage, California, in 1994, the daughter of a Polish father, a self-taught player who worked as a massage therapist in Palm Springs, and a Filipino mother. She had a racquet at about two, spent a junior year training at the USTA centre in Carson, then chose college over the tour and played four years at Arizona State, earning All-America honours as a senior in 2016.

She turned to doubles soon after joining the tour in 2017 and won her first WTA title in 2018. In 2020 she reached the French Open women's doubles final with Alexa Guarachi. In 2021 she won three of the four major mixed titles: Roland Garros and the US Open with Joe Salisbury, and Wimbledon with Neal Skupski. She and Skupski kept the Wimbledon title in 2022.

She has won women's doubles titles on all three surfaces, among them Nottingham in 2019, Eastbourne in 2023 and the WTA 1000 Canadian Open in 2024, and reached a career-high of No. 7 in August 2024. She played the Paris Olympics in 2024 and in 2025 began a podcast, The Player's Box, with Jessica Pegula, Madison Keys and Jennifer Brady.

On grass

Wimbledon mixed final, 2021Seeded seventh with Neal Skupski, beat Joe Salisbury, her French Open partner of a month earlier, and Harriet Dart 6-2, 7-6 (7-1); the pair dropped one set all tournament, in a 3-6, 7-6, 7-5 semi-final win over Zhang Shuai and John Peers
Wimbledon mixed final, 2022Seeded second, beat Matthew Ebden and Sam Stosur 6-4, 6-3, the first pair to retain the title since Cyril Suk and Helena Suková in 1997
Wimbledon women's doublesSemi-finals in 2022 with Danielle Collins, 2024 with Caroline Dolehide and 2025 with Olivia Gadecki
Grass titlesNottingham 2019 with Giuliana Olmos; Eastbourne 2023 with Demi Schuurs, beating Nicole Melichar-Martinez and Ellen Perez

Every grass title: 4

Show every title, tournament by tournament
Wimbledon
2021 Mixed doubles with Neal Skupski
2022 Mixed doubles with Neal Skupski
Nottingham
2019 Women's doubles with Giuliana Olmos
Eastbourne
2023 Women's doubles with Demi Schuurs

Leading grass titles only: the grass majors, tour-level grass events since 1968 and the leading grass championships before 1968. † single source; ‡ sources disagree. Roll of champions

"I think Wimbledon is just, it's Wimbledon, and it's just something you look forward to. It's my favorite tournament."

Krawczyk after winning the 2021 Wimbledon mixed doubles with Neal Skupski, USTA, July 2021

Anecdotes

The person behind the player.

Indian Wells

From ballkid to champion

Krawczyk grew up near Indian Wells and was a ballkid at the tournament for about ten years, with photographs alongside Federer, Nadal, Djokovic and Murray. On tour she showed Caroline Wozniacki a picture of herself ballkidding for Wozniacki when the Dane was a teenager in braces.

Source: WTA, Doubles Dossier

Arizona State

A prank on her coach

When she was 18 Krawczyk rang the Arizona State coach Sheila McInerney and told her she had liked the university but was going elsewhere. McInerney took the news graciously, and Krawczyk then said she was joking and committed to ASU in the same call.

Source: Cronkite News, 31 August 2026

Paris to London 2021

The partner who nearly went home

At Roland Garros in 2021 Joe Salisbury thought about leaving the mixed doubles after losing in the men's event, to go and prepare for the grass. He stayed, they won the title, and three weeks later Krawczyk beat him in the Wimbledon final with Neal Skupski.

Source: Cronkite News, 31 August 2026

Family

Pancit for Alex Eala

Krawczyk's mother is Filipino and a great fan of Alex Eala. On her podcast Krawczyk recalled her mother announcing she would watch Eala play on a Thursday, forgetting that her daughter was playing that day too, and planning to cook pancit and lumpia for Eala.

Source: PhilSTAR Life, 11 March 2026

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