Inglot’s World Cup truce

LONDON’S Dom Inglot and Croatian partner Franco Skugor may be at each other’s throats after tonight’s World Cup semi-final, but yesterday they beat Robin Haase and Robert Lindstedt to reach the semi-finals of the men’s doubles. Earlier, Inglot’s fellow Londoner Joe Salisbury and Dane Frederik Nielsen beat No 14 seeds Ben McLachlan and Jan-Lennard Struff in four sets. That means there will be two pairs featuring a Briton in the men’s doubles semi-finals for the first time since 1939. Britain’s Jamie Murray and Brazil’s Bruno Soares last night lost in five sets to Raven Klaasen and Michael Venus. Inglot and Skugor meet the winners tomorrow. Salisbury and Nielsen face Mike Bryan and Jack Sock of the US. Salisbury, 26, had never won a Grand Slam match before this fortnight and is set to double his career prize money of £66,000 — even if he loses. Heather Watson and Finn Henri Kontinen, 2016 mixed doubles champions, lost in straight sets but Brits Jay Clarke and Harriet Dart beat top seeds Mate Pavic and Gabriela Dabrowski.