Spanish tennis will leave the Shanghai Masters 1000 with the title. It’s not Carlos Alcaraz, who was eliminated in the round of 16 in the individual tournament, but to Marcel Granollers, who this Sunday was crowned champion in the doubles category with Argentine Horacio Zeballos.
The Spanish-Argentine couple He defeated the team formed by Indian Rohan Bopanna and Australian Matthew Ebden 5-7, 6-2, 10-7 in one hour and 22 minutes of play.
The match started evenly and only a breaking point in the last game unbalanced the first set. in favor of Bopanna and Ebden, who, however, started the second set very disconnected, giving two consecutive serves so that the Spanish-speaking duo quickly went up 4-0.
The tiebreaker round brought equality to the game again but two veterans of the courts like Granollers and Zeballos (37 and 38 years old, respectively) They knew how to be solid and in the end they even came out on top.
With this title, their eighth title as a couple, five of them Masters 1000, Granollers and Zeballos rise to fourth place in the world rankings and guarantee a place in the ATP Finals in a great season where they reached the final of Wimbledon and the semifinals of the Australian Open and Roland Garros.
Source: La Verdad
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