Carlos Alcaraz will play this Saturday (9pm) for his place in the final of ATP Finals against Novak Djokovic. He will be the second Spaniard to achieve this in this edition of the masters tournament after the victory of Marcel Granollers in the doubles table.
The Catalan won with his inseparable partner, Argentine Horacio Zeballos, 7-5, 6-4 in just one hour and a quarter over the pair formed by Indian Rohan Bopanna and Australian Matthew Ebden.
A break in the twelfth game was enough to close out a close first set where there are almost no options for others. The emotional blow reached Bopanna and Ebden, who failed in the third game of the second set and surrendered a break heading into the final.
Granollers and Zeballos remained hard on serve and did not give their rivals any options to finish closing the match with a 7-5, 6-4 allowing them to finally overcome the penultimate round, already reached in 2020 and 2021, in an impeccable tournament where they achieved full success in group stage. It will be the second master’s crown for the Catalan, who already won the title in 2012 with Marc López.
His rivals in the final will emerge from the American rivalry Rajeev Ram and the British Joe Salisbury with the Mexican Santiago González and the French Edouard Roger-Vasselinwhich Granollers and Zeballos defeated on Sunday 2-6, 6-3 and 10-7.
They will come into the big event having dropped a set in the first match and with the possibility to choose not only in the great economic pot distributed by ATP, but at number one as a couple.
Source: La Verdad
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