It was worth it. Far from the pain of defeat, if you look back, the effect of the capital season will remain in your memory forever. however, Horacio Zeballos He wants more. For this reason, his fall in the semi-finals of the Masters Tournament continues to hurt him, at the end of 2021. In partnership with Marcel GranollersAnd He lost 6-3 6-4 Reverse Pierre Hughes Herbert and Nicholas Mahut, two specialists. He will face the final on Sunday with the French national team Rajiv Ram (US) and Joe Salisbury (United kingdom).
For the second year in a row, the pair of doubles that integrate Zeballos He qualified for the ATP Finals and lost in the semi-finals. The event is being hosted for the first time in the Italian city of Turin, in particular Bala Albitor. In 2020, the Argentine and the Spaniard fell to the Dutch Wesley Kolhoff and the Croatian Nikola Mektic 6-3 6-4. Identical result, similar case. But in London.
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subordinate Six titles The pair had an amazing year, four of them in the ATP Masters 1000 tournaments. It was their last celebration in Cincinnatiwho beat Americans Steve Johnson and Austin Krajesek 7-6 (7-5), 7-6 (7-5).
It is worth noting the level of executioners of Zeballos and the Granollers: Rajiv Ram and Joe Salisbury, last year’s winners, are the US Open champions, and Pierre-Hugues Herbert and Nicolas Mahut, who are Roland Garros.
Meanwhile, Russian Daniel Medvedev He will defend his crown in the final gentlemen of the individual From this Sunday, after overtaking the Norwegian with power Casper Road by 6-4 and 6-2. Medvedev, 25, the king of the tournament that brings together the eight best tennis players of the season at the end of the year, will meet in the final with the German Olympic champion Alexander Zverev, who left world number one Novak Djokovic, 7-6 (7-4), 4-6, 6-3 on the road.
In front of Ruud, the 22-year-old debutant in the competition and a surprising champion in the semi-finals, the Russian did not give in to a break in the ball and hoped for the match with a superb forehand, which made the Norwegian suffer in super speed surface from Turin. “I think Ruud is one of the smartest players on the track and this year he was in the semi-finals for the first time. In my first match, I lost all three matches,” Medvedev recalls.
Medvedev, who finished the match in just under an hour and 20 minutes, won his ninth consecutive Masters tournament, after the five that led him to victory last year and the four he participated in this edition.