The Spanish Marcel Granollers, 38 years old, and the Argentine Horacio Zeballos29, is on the brink of a total KO at the ATP Finals. Only one carom on the last day, which first involved breaking the Australians Max Purcell and Jordan Thompsoncould give them the remaining spot in their group for the semifinals of the ATP Finals.
Their executioners on the first day, the Finnish Harri Heliovaara and the British Henry Patten, have already achieved the mathematical classification with their 2-0. Before they beat Purcell and Thompson (1-1), while Granollers and Zeballos were the only ones at zero after losing to the Dutchman Wesley Koolhof and the Croatian Nikola Mektic by 6-4, 6-7 (6) and 10-8 in 1h.52′.
Granollers and Zeballos, who served the world number one, had it in their hands, but they missed a match point at 6-5 in the tiebreak of the second set.
In the final ‘supertiebreak’ they saved three penalty points, but in the fourth they succumbed to Koolhof and Mektic, for the fourth time in their career, second this season.
Source: La Verdad
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