{"id":32063,"date":"2025-09-06T15:40:56","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T19:40:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/granollers-and-zeballos-conquer-the-us-open-grand-slam-double-in-2024\/"},"modified":"2025-09-06T15:40:56","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T19:40:56","slug":"granollers-and-zeballos-conquer-the-us-open-grand-slam-double-in-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/tennis\/granollers-and-zeballos-conquer-the-us-open-grand-slam-double-in-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Granollers and Zeballos Conquer the US Open: Grand Slam Double in 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"New York \u2013 Marcel Granollers and Horacio Zeballos won the men&#8217;s doubles championship at the US Open this Saturday, achieving their second Grand Slam title of the season after defeating Joe Salisbury and Neal Skupski with a score of 3-6, 7-6 (4), 7-5.The team, seeded fifth, also took the French Open, also surpassing Salisbury and Skupski, giving this pair their first two major titles after losing in their first three finals.<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>This year we are having results and I am very happy to do it with him because we fought hard.<\/p><cite>Marcel Granollers<\/cite><\/blockquote>They were close to defeat, as the British duo 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 when Granollers dove to return Skupski&#8217;s serve to an open corner, giving them a 6-5 lead.With Carlos Alcaraz, Spanish compatriot, watching and cheering from the training room, Granollers then served to close out the match.Salisbury was seeking his fourth US Open men&#8217;s doubles title, having won three in a row with Rajeev Ram from 2021 to &#8217;23. He and Skupski formed a partnership this year, and although they were close, they didn&#8217;t achieve victory. The US Open was their fifth final this year, and they lost them all.<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a4.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2025%2F0906%2Fr1541888_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><figcaption>Horacio Zeballos, a la izquierda, y Marcel Granollers celebran su ajustada victoria en la final de dobles del US Open sobre Joe Salisbury y Neal Skupski el s\u00e1bado. Geoff Burke-Imagn Images<\/figcaption><\/figure><blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>We will keep working hard, and these finals will come someday.<\/p><cite>Neal Skupski<\/cite><\/blockquote>The close final \u2013 Granollers and Zeballos had a 98-97 lead in total points \u2013 gave the winners their third Grand Slam victory over the number 6 pair, Salisbury and Skupski, this year. They also won a match in the Wimbledon quarter-finals.<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>So, why not do it in Australia?<\/p><cite>Neal Skupski<\/cite><\/blockquote>Skupski said, looking towards the next major. &#8220;We&#8217;ll try again and hopefully have another great match.&#8221;","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York \u2013 Marcel Granollers and Horacio Zeballos won the men&#8217;s doubles championship at the US Open this Saturday, achieving their second Grand Slam title of the season after defeating Joe Salisbury and Neal Skupski with a score of 3-6, 7-6 (4), 7-5.The team, seeded fifth, also took the French Open, also surpassing Salisbury and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32064,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[2255,3733,3162,8380],"class_list":{"0":"post-32063","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-doubles","9":"tag-granollers","10":"tag-us-open","11":"tag-zeballos"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32063\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}