The couple made up of the Argentine Horacio Zeballos and spanish Marcel Granollers, number 1 in the world in doubles, They qualified for the semifinals of Roland Garros after the 6-4, 6-1 victory against the duo made up of the Chinese Zhang Zhizhen and the czech Tomas Machac.
Zeballos and Granollers They showed an enormous level against their rivals, whose service was broken five times, to comfortably win in just one hour and five minutes of play.
Zeballos continues to fight at Roland Garros in doubles
The duo has been having one of the best streaks of their career, since at the beginning of May they reached the top of the ranking during the Madrid Masters 1000 and then became champions in Rome.
Now, at Roland Garros, they are in search of their first Grand Slam title, something that has been elusive for them in recent seasons. Together they reached the final of the US Open in 2019 and Wimbledon in 2021 and 2023, but luck was never on their side.
They still do not know their rivals in the semis, who could be the Tsitsipas brothers (Stefanos and Petros), the French Manuel Guinard and Gregoire Jacq, or the Salvadoran Marcelo Arévalo and the Croatian Mate Pavic.
The best participations of Zeballos and Granollers in the Roland Garros doubles were the semifinals reached in 2022 and 2023 (the man from Mar del Plata also reached this stage in 2013 as a pair with the Uruguayan Pablo Cuevas).
As a doubles player, Zeballos won an impressive 21 titles: 7 Masters 1000, 3 ATP 500 and 11 ATP 250.
Zeballos is the only Argentine who continues in competition, after yesterday’s defeat of Andrés Molteni and Máximo González precisely against Zhizhen and Machac.
To the operating room
The Serbian Novak Djokovic who will no longer be world No. 1 on Monday, will undergo surgery in a clinic in Paris for the injury he suffered to the meniscus in his right knee. He would miss Wimbledon, but would make it to the Paris Olympics.
Djokovic, the greatest Grand Slam winner in history, had suffered from knee problems during the round of 16 match at Roland Garros against the Argentine Francisco Cerúndolo, whom he beat in five sets. Finally, yesterday he decided to withdraw from the tournament due to a medial meniscus tear in his right knee.
This will cause him to be displaced from No. 1 in the ATP ranking on Monday by the Italian Jannik Sinner, since he will not be able to defend the 2000 points obtained at Roland Garros last year, where he won the title.
According to the French media L’Equipe, Djokovic would undergo surgery today and the minimum time he would be out would be one month. This means that he would miss Wimbledon, a tournament he won seven times (2011, 2014, 2015, 2018, 2019, 2021 and 2022), but he would reach the Olympic Games, the only major tournament he has yet to win in a career full of successes. .
2024 has been a very complicated year for Djokovic, who did not reach the final in any of the tournaments he played and, in addition, now he has this knee injury that will make him lose rhythm and puts his participation in the event in doubt. which was his great obsession this year: the Olympic Games.
If he arrives, it would be Nole’s fifth participation in the Olympic Games, where he could only win the bronze medal in 2008. From then on this event always became very elusive, since in 2012 the Argentine Juan Martín del Potro He won the match for third place, in 2016 the same rival eliminated him in the first round and in Tokyo 2020 he lost the bronze medal again, this time against the Spanish Pablo Carreño Busta.
Source: Ambito
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