Disappointment for Granollers and Zeballos as Bolelli and Vavassori claim Buenos Aires title

It could not be. Neither for Spain nor for Argentina. Marcel Granollers and Horacio Zeballos, champions in Buenos Aires 2020, lost the opportunity to win their second title as a couple in the tournament by losing this Sunday in the final against Simone Bolelli and Andrea Vavassori (6-2 and 7-6 (6)) .

The Italians, finalists of the last Australian Open (they lost to Rohan Bopanna and Matthew Ebden), lift their first title together in their fourth final (they could not achieve it before in the aforementioned Melbourne, nor last year in Halle and Umag) .

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Bolelli (38 years old) and Vavassori (28) have only played 28 games as a duo, but they have shown in a short time that they will have to be taken into account. With the support of the public, Granollers and Zeballos were close to forcing the third set, reaching the tiebreaker in the second. There they came close to making a comeback, when they went from 5-2 to a hopeful 6-6, but with a serve to get one point away from winning the set, they conceded a minibreak and then a shot from Vavassori sentenced them.

Both couples will meet again next week in the first round of the ATP 500 in Rio de Janeiro, in which it could be an immediate rematch. A shame for Marcel (38) and Horacio (37) who had the opportunity to expand their record at the Argentina Open. In addition to the title together, the Catalan won the titles in 2009 (with Beto Martín) and 2014 (Marc López). And the one from Buenos Aires, those of 2010 (Sebastián Prieto), 2018 (Andrés Molteni) and 2019 (Máximo González).

2024-02-18 18:38:31
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