The Spanish Marcel Granollers, who qualified for the Wimbledon doubles final, told an amusing anecdote of how he put the fingers of his right hand in a splint to return a joke to his partner, the Argentine Horace Zeballos.
“This is very good,” said the doubles player in front of the Spanish media. “Yesterday (Thursday) I left later (after qualifying for the semifinals). I went to get my bag and I had taped it to the leg of the bench. Then I knew him,” he added.
“So I went to the physio and told him to put my fingers in a splint, with a very hard bandage. I came home and I told him: I don’t know who tied the bag, but I tore it with force and I took my tendon in my hand. I had been asking who was in our place, but I didn’t see anyone”, said the Spaniard, making sure of that. zeballos he turned pale.
“It’s me, it’s me,” he told me zeballos. “I thought I’d put up with the joke for a while, because I knew it was him, but I’d give him something. I couldn’t bear it all night, because I couldn’t sleep and now wouldn’t go around to play. I told him I’d give it to him . deserved,” he said with a laugh. Granollerswho will play his fifth Grand Slam final at Wimbledon, having not won any of the previous ones.
“We are very happy because we have been in a very good line since Rome, playing very well and here we have won difficult games. Every day we are quite comfortable, today everything has been perfect,” said the Spaniard.
“In the Grand Slams with Horacio, in almost all of them we get good results,” he said.
Source: La Verdad
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