The Argentine and Spanish duo, world number 1 in doubles, won 6-2, 6-2 over the pair composed of the Salvadoran Marcelo Arévalo and the Croatian Mate Pavic, and won the title in the Italian capital.
After reaching the top of ATP world ranking, but not having been able to crown him in the Masters 1000 in Madrid, due to the injury of Horacio Zeballos, The duo of the Argentine and the Spanish Marcel Granollers was crowned champion of the Rome Masters 1000 with a resounding victory 6-2 and 6-2 against the Salvadoran Marcelo Arévalo and the Croatian Mate Pavic.
The experienced duo, aged 39 and 38, respectively, enjoyed an unbeatable week on the Italian clay, where they destroyed without giving up sets from the Finnish Harri Helióvaara (39th) and the British Henry Patten (56th), from the Brazilian Rafael Matos (43rd) and the Argentine Andrés Molteni (15th), from the Belgians Sander Gille (19th) and Joran Vliegen (19th °), and the American Ben Shelton (94°) and the Kazakh Alexander Bublik (285°).
Already in the final, the first seeds knew how to intelligently manage the match, marked by the weather, where the rains forced the start to be delayed and they split the second round in half.. The left-hander from Mar del Plata and the right-hander from Barcelona gave their rivals no option, totaling a ace, 81% points earned on your first serve, four break points concretized and no break awarded in alone 66 minutes rally on the center court.
In this way, the talented duo, who joined paths in 2019, raised their ninth trophy, sixth in the category, second in the Foro Italicoafter being crowned in 2020, an opportunity in which they celebrated 6-4, 5-7 and 10-8 against the French Jeremy Chardy and Fabrice Martin, to secure your pole position in the ATP rankings.
“It has been a very special week. We played very well in a beautiful tournament that is now one of the best for us,” Zeballos began saying.
“I don’t want to get emotional, but I want to thank my partner because we have experienced very strong things. Also thank my father, my mother… We have been working hard and we deserve to be at this moment, in one of the most important tournaments for Argentines and South Americans. Thank you and see you next year,” he said with a broken voice and visibly excited.
With the Foro Italico cup in their pocket, Granollers and Zeballos extend their advantage to 340 points over Australian No. 3 Matthew Ebden, their closest pursuer at the top of the circuit.
Source: Ambito
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