The Argentine tennis player Horacio Zeballos, in partnership with the Spanish Marcell Granollers, was crowned champion of the ATP 500 doubles tournament in Halle, played on grass in Germany as part of the Wimbledon qualifier, the third Grand Slam of the year.
The champions defeated German Tim Puetz and Australian Michael Venus in the final 6-4, 5-7 (5), 14-12 after one hour and 52 minutes on the Owl Arena central court.
The 37-year-old from Mar del Plata, number 4 in the doubles world ranking, got his 19th. title in the specialty, first of the year and also baptismal on grass surface.
Together with the Catalan Granollers, he had won two tournaments on hard courts (Canada 2019 and Cincinnati 2021) and another four on clay (Buenos Aires, Rio de Janeiro and Rome in 2020 and Madrid 2021).
Zeballos and Granollers were credited with a prize of 131,110 euros and 500 points for the ranking for their victory in Halle, a city located about 170 kilometers southwest of Berlin.
On the other hand, ten Argentine players will begin their respective paths in the classification of the Wimbledon Tennis Open, the third Grand Slam of the season that will begin next week in London and will distribute prizes of 40,250,000 pounds sterling.
Thus, the 27-year-old Pedro Cachín (120 in the ATP world ranking) from Cordoba will meet the Frenchman Antoine Escoffier (211), while the 22-year-old Camilo Ugo Carabelli (131) from Buenos Aires will do so with the Frenchman. Alexander Muller (216).
Platense Thiago Tirante (198), 21, will have Portuguese Frederico Ferreira Silva (261) as his inaugural opponent in qualifying.
Rosario Renzo Olivo (178), 30 years old, will face Taiwanese Tung-Lin Wu (196), while Buenos Aires Facundo Mena (163), 29, will face American Thai Son Kwiatkowski (560).
The native of Pilar, Santiago Rodríguez Taverna (185), will face the Serbian Miljan Zekic (267), while the one born in Merlo, Nicolás Kicker (218), 29, will face the Italian Flavio Cobolli (150 ).
The tennis player born in New York and who adopted Argentine citizenship, Andrea Collarini (204), 30, will assume a risky debut against the American Jack Sock (129), who leads him 1-0 in the record of previous matches against each other .
The native of Bragado, Genaro Olivieri (222), 23, will make his debut in qualifying against the Brazilian Matheus Pucinelli de Almeira (228). Finally, Facundo Díaz Acosta (240), from Buenos Aires, 21, will face Spanish Javier Barranco Cosano (251).
