The doubles painting is usually seen only sideways in many tournaments, but in the Mutua Madrid Open has recently given Spanish tennis. This season in which national players and players accumulate bad news in the individual paintings in the Magic Box, Marcel Granllers raised the Title with his partner of recent years, the Argentine Horacio Zeballosby defeating in the final the Salvadoran Marcelo Arévalo and the Croatian Mate Pavic for a double 6-4.
The 2025 edition of the Spanish 1,000 Masters has seen the Withdrawal from Carlos Alcaraz one day before competing, and Paula Badosa just a while before doing so. The one who went farther in the individual paintings was Alejandro Davidovich, surpassed by Alexander Zverev in the third round, in a very disputed match (2-6, 7-6 [7/3] y 7-6 [7/0]).
In doubles, on the other hand, Granollers and Zeballos have been untouchable, even lift the title without giving up a single set. That will also do that they are placed, respectively, like seven and eight in the world of specialty (they have become numbers one, just a year ago in the capital of Spain, when they reached the semifinals, although they could not play them due to Horacio’s injury).
The duel for the title faced them Roland Garros Champions 2024 and the great difficulty came with the 3-0 against in the second set, but they managed to turn the situation with five consecutive games.
28 titles in granollers doubles
It is the eleventh title as a couple in the ATP circuit. Eight of those successes are Masters 1000. They join this from Madrid to those achieved in Montreal 2019, Rome 2020, Cincinnati and Madrid 2021, Shanghai 2023, Rome and Montreal 2024. Marcel in total, has 28 glasses achieved in doubles In his career. The most important that he achieved in his previous stage with Marc López was the Nitto ATP Finals of 2012.
In doubles in Madrid also “born” by chance in 2024 (you can read here the whole story), the duo formed by Cristina Bucsa y Sara Sorribesthat three months later the Bronze at the Paris Olympic Games.
