The Spaniard and the Argentine confess to having felt a certain sense of relief upon lifting the trophy of the Mutua Madrid Open 2025 Marcel Granollers and Horacio Zeballos are recovering their best form and being finalists in the Mutua Madrid Open 2025 doubles their hopes of winning a major title together The Spanish and Argentine duo defeated Krawietz and Puetz 7-6 (8) 7-5 already awaiting in the final the outcome of Arévalo-Pavic or Harrison-King This news is an automatic translation. You can read the original news, Granollers y Zeballos prolongan su sueño en Madrid A very bitter debut for Marcel Granollers and Horacio Zeballos in this 2025 The pair hadn't played together since the 2024 ATP Finals due to an injury that has kept the Spaniard out of competition since the Davis Cup ended they fell at the Indian Wells Masters against two players more accustomed to singles matches Jiri Lehecka and Alejandro Tabilo (6-2 6-3) this only represents a cold start to the year and the former world number ones can soon enjoy tennis again This news is an automatic translation. You can read the original news, Batacazo de Granollers y Zeballos en su estreno en 2025 Marcel Granollers and Horacio Zeballos conquer the trophy of the Mutua Madrid Open 2025 in the men's doubles The duo formed by the Spanish and the Argentine prevailed in the match against Marcelo Arévalo and Mate Pavic with a score of 6-4 and 6-4 in 1 hour and 17 minutes of a match in which they had to come back in the second set This is the 12th trophy they have won together This news is an automatic translation. You can read the original news, Granollers y Zeballos reinan en el Mutua Madrid Open 2025 A tough test awaited Marcel Granollers and Horacio Zeballos at the 2025 ATP Bucharest The Spanish-Argentinian duo were the favorites but their opponents in the final were far from easy Jakob Schnaitter and Mark Wallner came in great form to the tournament but the experienced doubles players managed to defeat them with a 7-6 6-4 victory After winning the Phoenix Challenger in March Granollers and Zeballos were playing their fourth tournament of the year together as Marcel had been out in the early months due to an injury They did not drop a single set throughout the week and despite the cold conditions in Romania not being ideal they will travel to the Monte Carlo Masters 1000 where they will face Frenchman Manuel Guinard and local player Romain Arneodo in the first round This news is an automatic translation. You can read the original news, ATP Bucarest. Granollers y Zeballos inauguran su palmarés ATP en 2025 Marcel Granollers confirmed his withdrawal from the Australian Open 2025 on this Wednesday The Spaniard was playing alongside his usual partner Horacio Zeballos with whom he was set to debut this upcoming Thursday Granollers has suffered a chest injury that he had been carrying since his preseason in Barcelona He has not been able to recover in time for the first Grand Slam so he had to withdraw from the doubles draw This news is an automatic translation. You can read the original news, Granollers, baja de última hora en el Open de Australia 2025 por lesión The draws for the men's and women's doubles of the 2025 Australian Open were just conducted so we already have the lineups ready for discussion some of them partnering with each other and others seeking partners abroad Marcel Granollers and Horacio Zeballos will start as the second seeds but we will also closely follow Pedro-Munar there will be an all-Spanish pair with Bouzas-Cavallé along with Sorribes-Rakhimova and Bucsa-Sizikova This news is an automatic translation. You can read the original news, AO 2025. Diez españoles competirán en los cuadros de dobles There is less than a month left before the first round of the 2025 Davis Cup, and the Spanish team may be facing some setbacks. As reported by the newspaper Marca The national team captain will not have these players available to face Switzerland on February 1 and 2 in Biel the only confirmed player is Pedro Martínez and the identities of the other team members are yet to be revealed This news is an automatic translation. You can read the original news, El grave problema al que se enfrenta Ferrer como capitán de Copa Davis en 2025 The Entry List for the men's doubles at the upcoming 2025 Australian Open was the last piece we were missing and the new week's entry leaves us with a preliminary list full of fantastic names It will be a very open edition that allows us to discover unprecedented pairs for this year: Rohan Bopanna teams up with Colombian Nicolás Barrientos for the first time Matthew Ebden partners with Belgian Joran Vliegen and Nikola Mektic joins forces with New Zealander Michael Venus be a great opportunity for Marcel Granollers and Horacio Zeballos to win their first Grand Slam together: they are second favorites just behind Marcelo Arévalo and Mate Pavic with pairs like Pedro Martínez/Jaume Munar and Pablo Carreño/Sergio Martos while Roberto Carballés will be teamed up with Buyunchaokete several tandems are attracting attention for what also marks their return to the spotlight: Kokkinakis/Kyrgios and Petros Tsitsipas/Stefanos Tsitsipas promise to make their mark Australian Open men’s doubles entry list pic.twitter.com/GCuTcf101E This news is an automatic translation. 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Nuevas parejas, muchos españoles y la vuelta de Kokkinakis/Kyrgios Spain loses the doubles match and is eliminated in this 2024 Davis Cup finals 6-4 to lift the trophy in the Spanish capital four years on from their maiden title there In a topsy-turvy match between two of the strongest teams on the circuit Granollers and Zeballos needed nerves of steel to claim victory Set one was a classy exchange in which one break was enough for them to take their first step towards the cup In the second they had to dig deep to recover from 0-3 to eventually win one of the pair’s most exciting matches all year Granollers and Zeballos have managed a return to their best after a slow start to the season A chest injury picked up by the Spaniard prevented the duo from competing together until March slowing the momentum of one of the most feared duos in the locker room Despite arriving in Madrid with a 4-4 record in 2025 they managed to bring everything together and claim the title visibly thrilled to have made it across the line “We’ve been playing together since 2019 and I think we’re still really enjoying it but I’ve felt his support from day one and that’s also been very important” On a European clay swing that they started in force by winning the ATP 250 in Bucharest the Spanish-Argentine pair have again demonstrated their prowess in the Caja Magica to earn themselves one of the most coveted trophies on the circuit “Madrid is a city where I have amazing memories I think it’s one of the most beautiful cities and the one from which I’ll have the best memories for the rest of my life” Granollers and Zeballos are one of the most experienced doubles partnerships in the men’s game Having competed alongside one another for over five years at almost all of the biggest events on the calendar Marcel and Horacio have amassed a collection of 12 doubles crowns together No other active pair can boast of having so many titles from the ATP Tour’s top rung of events I have read and accept the terms and conditions and I want to subscribe to the newsletter. Download the official Mutua Madrid Open App: Marcel Granollers and Horacio Zeballos achieved their twelfth trophy as a duo at the Mutua Madrid Open 2025 pushing them back into the Top 10 of the Doubles Ranking the Spanish and Argentine players attended a press conference to share their initial feelings about clinching this Masters 1000 on clay court as well as their expectations for the upcoming weeks individual tournaments receive more attention than doubles and we don't know if people talk about it more or not We are happy to still be here and be able to talk about winning It's a good feeling and speaks volumes about how we try to do things counting the Masters 1000 we have won together something incredible because we have been playing since 2019 trying to be a bit better than the day before That will lead us to win another Masters 1000 like this week and hopefully keep winning big tournaments but I have felt the support of Horacio from day one The level of demand we have had in training has been very high since I returned We have talked about how quickly things can change." "We work a lot on both the physical and mental aspects Every day we try to improve our tennis shots and everything we try to stay happy and enjoy these kinds of tournaments because sooner or later they will end," said the Argentine tennis here in Madrid is greatly lived and it shows." Horacio revealed how his adventure with Marcel began in 2019: "I didn't want to lose to him anymore we have taken care of each other off the court and we tried to approach them in the same way There is no time to be bitter if you don't have reasons to be We are super happy; it has been a feeling of relief but the important thing is to keep working like this." This news is an automatic translation. You can read the original news, Granollers: "Este triunfo habla muy bien de cómo hacemos las cosas" There’s no doubt that the Caja Magica is the most special venue in Marcel Granollers’ career The Spaniard won the Davis Cup there in 2019; in 2021 he won the Mutua Madrid Open doubles title; in 2024 he reached the top of the ATP Rankings for the first time after a win in the Spanish capital; and now he may be crowned champion of the Masters 1000 once again Granollers and Argentina’s Horacio Zeballos beat the German duo of Tim Pütz and Kevin Krawietz 7-6 (8-6) 7-5 in a scintillating clash in the Arantxa Sánchez-Vicario Stadium which was packed with Spanish fans who had turned out to watch the men’s doubles semifinal had two set points in the first-set tiebreak but Granollers and Zeballos dug deep and managed to rescue themselves The first break of the match came in the middle of set two when the Spanish-Argentine outfit broke to take a 4-3 lead that looked like it would be decisive But Pütz and Krawietz were not quite ready to lay down their arms When they were returning to save the match because you are so close and you don’t manage to close it out Granollers told the media in the mixed zone afterwards “But we stayed strong mentally and played spectacularly to reach 7-5” None of the four of us were making mistakes and we’re very happy to have held on” we really helped ourselves in the tough moments We’re really happy about the way we’re competing” Having knocked out the number-two pair in the quarters and the number threes in the semis Granollers and Zeballos will meet the number-one duo in Saturday’s final: El Salvador’s Marcelo Arévalo and the Croatian Mate Pavic who beat American duo Christian Harrison and Evan King on Friday Granollers and Zeballos know they will be the crowd favourites and we were saying how amazing it is to play here Last year we left here as the number ones and we feel that energy every time we play” Wesley Koolhof and Nikola Mektic came back from the brink to rejuvenate their Nitto ATP Finals campaign on Tuesday evening in Turin The Dutch-Croatian pair bounced back from an opening loss at the prestigious season finale by saving a match point to down second seeds Marcel Granollers and Horacio Zeballos 4-6 Koolhof and Mektic crucially held their nerve across the business end of the match to improve to 1-1 in Mike Bryan Group “It was a huge battle from the beginning,” said Mektic We had some chances in the second set to break Every point was vital in the end and it went our way.” On the cusp of a straight-sets defeat that would have eliminated them from the tournament Koolhof and Mektic reeled off three consecutive points from 5/6 in the second-set tie-break to force a decider inside Inalpi Arena The emotional driving force of the comeback was Koolhof whose desire to keep alive his chances of winning a title in the final ATP Tour event of his career was clear to see There was still a late wobble from the Dutchman and Mektic as they let slip their first three match points from 9/5 in the Match Tie-break The pair made no mistake with their fourth match point as they wrapped a victory in which they won 88 per cent (44/50) of points behind first serves “The first match was a pretty high quality as well,” said Koolhof when asked if he and Mektic had made any tactical changes after their opening defeat to Max Purcell and Jordan Thompson in Turin “We always play great battles against Zeballos and Granollers every single time we play them but we didn’t really do much different than in the previous match.” the 2020 Nitto ATP Finals champions extended their Lexus ATP Head2Head series lead against Granollers and Zeballos to 4-0 Three of those victories have come this year when Koolhof and Mektic prevailed against their Spanish-Argentine rivals in Auckland Koolhof and Mektic’s Match Tie-break win ensured that Harri Heliovaara and Henry Patten became the first team to seal a semi-final spot in Turin Heliovaara and Patten earlier improved to 2-0 on their Nitto ATP Finals debut by defeating Purcell and Thompson 7-6(3) A second defeat of the week in Turin was a blow to Granollers and Zeballos’ hopes of claiming ATP Year-End Doubles No The pair remains second in the PIF ATP Live Doubles Teams Rankings 210 points shy of Marcelo Arevalo and Mate Pavic Arevalo and Pavic play their second match in Turin on Wednesday against Rohan Bopanna and Matthew Ebden The league title will have to wait as the Barça handball team went down to a 31-30 defeat in the league against local rivals Fraikin Granollers in the Palau Despite nine goals from Dika Mem and 13 saves from keeper Emil Neilsen the visitors took a narrow victory to spoil the party for the blaugranes Barça went 3-1 up early in the contest but the visitors fought back strongly to take a 6-3 lead after 8 minutes and force blaugrana coach Carlos Ortega into a time out Granollers used the counterattack to stretch their advantage to 10-6 before Barça dragged themselves back into the contest Dika Mem lead from the front with goals and Neilsen made several stops to allow the blaugranes to lead 18-16 at half time Barça started the second half well taking a four goal lead at 24-20 Granollers fought back to level things up at 29-29 with just five minutes remaining In a frenetic final stretch with the Palau crowd willing them on Visiting keeper Rodríguez pulled off some important saves and the visitors were able to take the lead at 31-30 with two minutes and hold for the win Barça are next in action on Saturday 12 April at 7pm CEST against Servigroup Hoteles Benidorm García (7) -starting seven- Biel Valera (-) MALAGA, Spain — Rafael Nadal’s professional tennis career is over, his final match a 6-4, 6-4 defeat to Botic Van de Zandschulp of the Netherlands at the Davis Cup That defeat, coupled with Carlos Alcaraz and Marcel Granollers losing the doubles rubber 7-6(4), 7-6(3) to Wesley Koolhof and Van de Zandschulp, saw Spain eliminated from the Davis Cup. With that came the end for Nadal, one of the sport’s most successful players of all time, who in October confirmed that he would retire at the event. Nadal had flashes of his old self during the loss to Van de Zandschulp A scampering chase after a lob that he got back with a spinning overhead while running away from the net Ultimately his game proved too meek to survive a powerful Strokes that once would have pelted balls through the court ended up short allowing the Dutchman to take the initiative off Nadal’s racket With Nadal out it was left to Carlos Alcaraz to save him and to save Spain but then he and Granollers fell to Van de Zandschulp and Koolhof in straight sets as Nadal sat with his teammates courtside He stood and pumped his fists two at a time trying to get them to hang in and give him one more chance at the court The match came down to two tiebreaks. Koolhof and Van de Zandschulp played some their best tennis when it counted most with the weight of saving Nadal’s career for another few days pressing down on the Spaniards Van de Zandschulp turned it on with a lunging stab of a volley that nicked the outside of the sideline and a blazing passing shot that sent the Dutch on to the win Rafa” chant that has followed him around the world drowned him out “I have felt super fortunate to receive so much,” he said addressing members of Spain’s tennis team past and present Alcaraz looked crestfallen on the sidelines “Nobody ever wants to arrive at this moment — I am not tired of playing tennis,” Nadal said “My body has arrived at a place where it cannot play anymore I feel privileged to have extended my career longer than I expected Video tributes came in from legends and rivals: Serena Williams former Spain captain and goalkeeper Iker Casillas and striker Raul and golfer Sergio Garcia lent their voices David Beckham addressed Nadal – in Spanish “I have tried to achieve my goals with respect humility and appreciation for the good things I have experienced I have tried to be a good person and I hope you have felt that I leave the world of professional tennis having found many friends,” Nadal said “I have become a professional tennis player thanks to you It has been a blessing to live through your career as a child for whom you were an idol and then as a teammate It is an end that has been coming for two years with Nadal struggling for form and fitness since his last Grand Slam title at the 2022 French Open He retires with 22 Grand Slam titles, second only to Djokovic in men’s tennis history with 24. He also won two Olympic gold medals — one in singles and one in doubles — and four Davis Cups, with a final total of 92 career singles titles. Now 38, Nadal made his debut in professional tennis in 2001 at a Futures event, which is the third rung of the ATP tour. He started playing Challengers (a rung up but still one below the main ATP Tour) towards the end of 2002, and then made his main tour and Grand Slam debut the following year, reaching the Wimbledon third round. Two years later he won his maiden Grand Slam at the French Open, the first of 14 titles at an event where he retires with a record of played 116, won 112, lost four. He won four French Opens in a row between 2005 and 2008, and after that fourth title he won his first non-clay major a few weeks later by beating Roger Federer at Wimbledon in a classic of the 2000s. What's it like to play Rafael Nadal on clay? We asked the players Nadal won his first Australian Open in January 2009, but that year he also suffered his first-ever defeat at Roland Garros, to Robin Soderling in the fourth round. He responded by winning five more French Opens in a row between 2010 and 2014 and completing the “career Grand Slam” at 24 by winning the 2010 U.S. Open. Injuries and a crisis of confidence saw him endure two barren years in 2015 and 2016, but with new coach Carlos Moya in tow he rebounded to win a 10th French Open and third U.S. Open in 2017. That “La Decima” title in Paris began another run of four straight Roland Garros titles, between 2017 and 2020, the last of which was a straight-sets battering of Djokovic, so often his bete noire. In 2022 he moved ahead of Federer in the men’s Grand Slams leaderboard by winning a 21st and 22nd major at the Australian and French Opens, with that 14th title in Paris proved to be his final Grand Slam. (Top photo: Oscar J. Barroso / Getty Images) Top seeds Marcel Granollers (Spain) and Horacio Zeballos (Argentina) are the newly crowned doubles champions of the 2024 National Bank Open presented by Rogers it took them just over an hour (64 minutes) to dispose of no.3 seeds Rajeev Ram (USA) and Joe Salisbury (Great Britain) 6-2 Granollers and Zeballos claimed their second Canadian crown after winning together in Montreal in 2019 READ: Rajeev Ram into NBO doubles final after heartbreaking Olympics loss It was the tenth ATP showdown in the teams’ head-to-head and fourth win for Granollers and Zeballos while his 39-year-old partner has now amassed 29 titles in his brilliant career READ: Rublev vs. Popyrin - NBO final tale of the tape Ram, the 40-year-old veteran, has 31 titles in his trophy case and isn’t showing any signs of slowing down. And at 32, Salisbury is the youngest of the four and has already brought home 17 winners’ trophies. The champions will share US$322,000 in prize money, leaving US$174,900 for the runners-up. FC Barcelona have their first handball silverware of the season and it's still only August They had little trouble seeing off Fraikin Granollers in the Catalan Super Cup final to clinch the trophy for the 11th year in a row The home of CEM Les Moreres in Esplugues de Llobregat was the venue for a somewhat one-sided affair in which there was only ever going to be one winner Barça were +9 in the flick of an eyelid and there was never much question where this game was headed The points kept coming from all angles and by the break the +17 lead meant the second half was merely going to be academic There was something of a reaction from Granollers after the restart but it was strings and arrows against the lightning.The margin just got wider and wider and in the end Barça took it by a monstrous 52-27 That's the 24th time Barça have won the Catalan Super Cup Now to see if they can add another Super Cup in which they face Porto in Saturday's semi-final Antonio Bazán (4) & Palomino (3)Granollers: Lluc Borrell (-) Jaume Espigule (1) & Xavier Montaner (2) Periods: 3-1; 7-1; 13-4; 17-7; 22-8; 27-10 // 33-14; 37-18; 41-19; 44-22; 47-24; 52-27 Referees: Miquel Florenza & Jordi Ausás [tgdcta items=”1″ id=”170466″] Granollers and Zeballos have lost three of their last five matches They have also lost three straight matches Marcel and Horacio had their last win over a month ago in Shanghai where they won their opening match against Reyes-Varela and Smith J-P Granollers and Zeballos lost their opening match against Skupski and Venus in straight sets where they failed to perform under pressure Zeballos and Granollers lost their opening match against Heliovaara and Patten in straight sets Granollers and Zeballos have had their biggest results on the clay courts and shortly after that reached the semifinals of the French Open where they fell short to Arevalo and Pavic in three tight sets Horacio and Marcel also had some success on the hard courts where they won the Masters title in Montreal Granollers and Zeballos ended up being the first in the group they defeated Bopanna and Ebden in straight sets losing against Ram and Salisbury in the final [tgdcta items=”1″ id=”170460″] Koolhof and Mektic have won four of their last five matches Mektic and Koolhof won the Masters title in Paris winning against Glasspool and Pavlasek in three tight sets Nikola and Wesley were great in the match tiebreak Koolhof and Mektic lost their opening match against Purcell and Thompson in straight sets They looked emotionally exhausted on the court so this will be a very important match for them to bounce back and keep their hopes alive here in Turin Mektic and Koolhof were terrible in the first set tiebreak where they just made too many unforced errors Koolhof and Mektic have had their biggest results on the hard courts where they were dominant throughout the whole year Koolhof and Mektic won the title in Shanghai and then proceeded to reach the final in Basel The last time Mektic and Koolhof played together at the Nitto ATP Finals was in 2020 Koolhof and Mektic are the better players on the indoor hard courts such as this one They have also won all three head-to-head meetings and we expect them to continue in that fashion tomorrow as well Value bet/ the best odds: Koolhof/Mektic winning @1.91 @bet365 [tgdcta items=”1″ id=”170468″] Main Photo Credit: Danielle Parhizkaran-USA TODAY Sports Qinwen Zheng looked a shadow of herself against Anastasia Potatpova A 6-4 6-4 loss sent the World #8 home early; a ATP Masters 1000 Rome 1/64-Finals Lehecka – Muller: Time TBA H2H: 2-0 Jiri Lehecka has lost four of his last five matches Last Word On Sports is back with more action in our best bets column The Barça handball team were victorious at Granollers this Sunday but a derby away to the team in second place was not an easy test at all With the game preceded by a minute's silence in memory of the victims of the tragedy in Spain this week the game began with Hampus Wanne scoring four of the first six points With Aleix also chipping in a fine contribution but Granollers hit three in a row to get back to within two and after the break they had a series of chances to get the scores level With Pau Panitti brilliant between the home posts at 25-26 we were headed for a nerve.tingling finales re-established a five point lead and that was no way back time for Granollers Referees: Alejandro Hoz Fernández & Axel Riloba Pereda SYDNEY: Australia´s two-time Grand Slam doubles champion Max Purcell has accepted an 18-month doping ban the International Tennis Integrity Agency (ITIA) said on Tuesday The 27-year-old in December took a voluntary suspension describing himself at the time as “devastated” and saying he had not intended to break anti-doping rules Purcell has admitted receiving intravenous vitamin infusions of more than 500ml on December 16 and 20 The limit under the World Anti-Doping Code is 100ml in a 12-hour period taking into account time served out of the sport He will also forfeit results and prize money for the period between December 16 Purcell´s co-operation and information sharing with the ITIA allowed for a 25 percent reduction in sanction ITIA chief executive Karen Moorhouse said: “This case does not involve a player testing positive for a prohibited substance but demonstrates that the anti-doping rules are broader than that.” Purcell said: “I have accepted the mistake I made and will make sure I´m even more diligent with everything regarding the integrity of the sport.” Purcell won the 2022 Wimbledon doubles title alongside fellow Australian Matt Ebden and the US Open crown in 2024 with Jordan Thompson Purcell said he had been unable to sleep and eat properly because of his worries over the case “I´m so glad this is finally over for me and I can move on with my life,” he added It is the latest doping controversy in tennis Former women´s number one Iga Swiatek is back in action after last year accepting a one-month ban after testing positive for a banned substance Men´s number one Jannik Sinner has been out of action since accepting a three-month doping ban in February after twice testing positive for traces of the steroid clostebol in March last year This still shows competitors during a race on January 7 — YouTube@Lahore Race Club/ScreengrabLAHORE: Stewards.. 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