The Argentine Horacio Zeballos and the Spanish Marcel Granollers, classified in advance and for the second consecutive year to the semifinals of the Masters doubles draw, lost to the German Kevin Krawietz and the Romanian Horia Tecau 6-3, 6-7 (1- 7), 10-6 in the match of the last date of the Green Group, on a day in which the German Alexander Zverev agreed to the same instance, but in the singles contest.
The Mar del Plata Zeballos, fifth in the world doubles ranking, and the Catalan Granollers, sixth, fell after one hour and 40 minutes at the Pala Alpitour stadium, in the Santa Rita neighborhood, in Turin, the northern Italian city that hosts the tournament after having been played for 12 consecutive years in London.
Zeballos and Granollers had qualified for the semifinals thanks to their previous triumphs over Croatian Ivan Dodig and Slovak Filip Polasek 4-6, 7-6 (12-10), 10-6, and then against Croatians Mate Pavic and Nikola Mektic by 6-4, 7-6 (7-4).
The Mar del Plata and his teammate will meet their rivals for the semifinals on Saturday after the last Red Group date to be played on Friday.
For its part, in the second match of the day in doubles, the pair made up of the Croatians Nikola Mektic and Mate Pavic beat the pair made up of the Croatian Ivan Dodig and Slovak Filip Polasek 6-4, 7-6 (8-6) , after one hour and 35 minutes of the game, and they went on to the semifinals.
In turn, in the singles competition the German Alexander Zverev (3) defeated the Polish Hubert Hurkacz (9) 6-2 and 6-4, after one hour and four minutes of play, to advance to the semifinals.
Meanwhile, in the second match of the singles day and the last of the Green Group, Russian Daniil Medvedev (2), already qualified for the semifinals, beat Italian Jannik Sinner (11) 6-0, 6-7 ( 5-7), 7-6 (10-8), in two hours and 32 minutes, which left the zone undefeated by winning all three matches.
.
