Argentina’s Horacio Zeballos and Spain’s Marcel Granollers beat Croatia’s Mate Pavic and Nikola Mektic 6-4, 7-6 (4) in the second round of the Green Group and were one step away from advancing to the semi-finals of the ATP Finals doubles draw, which takes place in the Italian city of Turin. fifth in the doubles world ranking, and Granollers, number six in the world in the same modality, used an hour and 42 minutes to beat the Balkan duo, which is the number one on the planet.
Prestige victory! Marcel Granollers and @HoracioZeballos give a blow of authority against no. 1 Mektic/ Pavic 6-4, 7-6(4). They lead the Green Group with a 2-0 record. pic.twitter.com/ikKo3c3NI1 — ATP Tour (@ATPTour_ES)
November 16, 2021
In turn, the Marplatense and the Catalan had debuted in the tournament last Sunday with a victory over the Croatian Ivan Dodig and the Slovak Filip Polasek by 4-6, 7-6 (10) and 10-6 and are the leaders of the Green Group.It should be noted that Zeballos and Granollers will advance to the semifinals if later the duo of Dodig and Polasek overcome in the other match of the zone to the pair formed by the German Kevin Krawietz and romanian Horia Tecau.Finally, this is the second consecutive time that the Argentine and the Spaniard compete in the exclusive contest that brings together the eight most outstanding couples of the season, since last year, at the O2 Arena in London, they won their first two matches, lost the third in the closing of the group and said goodbye in the semifinals to Wesley Koolhof and Mektic, who would later be the champions of that tournament.
