Granollers and Zeballos US Open Doubles Champions: Epic Comeback!

In an exciting men’s doubles final at the US Open, Marcel Granollers and Horacio Zeballos emerged victorious, demonstrating their tenacity and skill on the court.

Granollers and Zeballos: US Open Champions

Granollers, with a precise move, managed to break Neal Skupski’s serve, which led to Carlos Alcaraz’s celebration. The match was full of emotion, with Granollers and Zeballos one point away from losing, and then becoming champions. Granollers and Zeballos won their second Grand Slam title of the season, defeating Joe Salisbury and Skupski with a score of 3-6, 7-6 (4), 7-5.

Tennis is sometimes crazy, because we were talking about how close we were to losing the match, and in 20 minutes you win the trophy.

Marcel Granollers

The duo, seeded number 5, also won the French Open, defeating Salisbury and Skupski, which gave them their first two major titles, and a million-dollar prize on Saturday, after losing in their first three finals. The British pair had three match points leading 5-4 in the third set. However, Granollers and Zeballos won the next eight points, finally achieving their only break of the match with Granollers’ return to lead 6-5. Granollers then served and said he was aware that Alcaraz, his Spanish compatriot, who plays against Jannik Sinner on Sunday in the men’s final, was watching in a training room. Salisbury was seeking his fourth US Open men’s doubles title, having won three in a row with Rajeev Ram from 2021 to ’23. He and Skupski became regular partners this year and it was one of the times they were close, but didn’t make it. The US Open was their fifth final this year and they lost them all.

We will keep working hard and these finals will come one day.

Neal Skupski

The hard-fought final, with Granollers and Zeballos holding a 98-97 lead in total points, gave the winners a third Grand Slam victory over the number 6 pair Salisbury and Skupski this year. They also won a match in the Wimbledon quarterfinals.

Granollers and Zeballos initially teamed up in 2019 and reached the US Open final that year. They also reached the Wimbledon final in 2021 and 2023, but couldn’t break through until their title this year in Paris. Then they reached the Wimbledon semi-finals, but they hadn’t played together since due to an injury to Granollers, who described the tournament at Flushing Meadows as two of his toughest weeks due to how he felt physically. He and Zeballos became the first men’s team to win multiple majors in a year since Juan Sebastián Cabal and Robert Farah in 2019.

Of course, this is an incredible feeling, especially because in 2019 we came here and lost the final. We were very close. I think we learned a lot from that final to try harder for this one.

Horacio Zeballos