PARIS — Veterans Marcel Granollers and Horacio Zeballos gained the French Open doubles closing Saturday for his or her first main title collectively on the mixed age of 79.
Granollers, a 39-year-old from Spain, and his 40-year-old Argentine associate performed of their fourth Grand Slam closing as a pairing, however first on the clay-court main. They defeated British pair Joe Salisbury and Neal Skupski 6-0, 6-7 (5), 7-5.
Granollers and Zeballos, who have been seeded fifth in Paris, have been runners-up on the U.S. Open in 2019 and Wimbledon in 2021 and 2023.
Salisbury and Skupski have been the primary all-British workforce to achieve a Grand Slam males’s doubles closing within the Open period (1968) and the primary British males’s doubles finalists at Roland Garros since 1936.
Granollers and Zeballos have been dominant early, blanking their eighth-seeded opponents within the opening set earlier than being dragged right into a dogfight within the subsequent.
Salisbury and Skupski, who gained the one earlier tour-level encounter between the 2 groups within the Rome quarterfinals final month, gained the second set tiebreak and have been near constructing a 4-3 lead within the decider earlier than a second of magic.
Zeballos hit the shot of the match to degree at deuce within the subsequent sport, chasing down a dipping ball and squeezing it across the submit at floor degree to attract loud cheers from a small crowd on Courtroom Philippe Chatrier.
Salisbury and Skupski refused to fade away, preventing on earlier than working out of gasoline within the twelfth sport.
Granollers and Zeballos broke to like to safe victory and fell to the bottom in celebration.
Info from the Related Press and Reuters was used on this report.