The tennis player from Mar del Plata and Marcel Granollers were among the eight best couples of the last Grand Slam of the year after beating Qureshi and O’Mara.
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The tennis player from Mar del Plata Horacio Zeballos and catalan Marcel Granollers they got among the best eight couples of the US Open 2021 after advancing to the quarterfinals by beating the duo made up of the Pakistani Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi and the british Jonny O’Mara by 7-5 and 7-5.
The duel for the second round of the last Grand Slam of the year disputed on American soil lasted one hour and 43 minutes, after two sets in which the experienced couple speaks Spanish struck at the opportune moments, broke the rival serves and managed to stay up without leaving the possibility of yielding a serve.
The seconds seeded will have to measure forces against the seventh favorites in the doubles modality of the US Open 2021, the binomial made up of the Brazilian Bruno Soares and the british Jamie Murray, a couple that comes from beating the Finn Emil Ruusuvuori and the German Dominik Koepfer by 7-6 (6), 6-7 (4) and 6-1.
Regarding the top favorites in these US Open 2021, the Croatians Nikola Mektic and Mate Pavic, they fell surprisingly in the debut of the contest against the Americans Nathaniel Lammons and Jackson Withrow, a pair that was eliminated in the second round, so the top favorites to stay with the important title are Zeballos and Granollers, a couple that has just been crowned champions of the Cincinnati Masters.
It is worth mentioning that after what that new title obtained in August meant, both Horacio Zeballos and Marcel Granollers climbed important positions in the ATP Rankings, in which the Mar del Plata reached the fourth place (He was sixth in the world before the title), while the Catalan climbed to the fifth placement (it was tenth).
