Horacio Zeballos
and
Marcel Granollers
will play this Friday, starting at 5:30 p.m. in Argentina and on the
central court
of the
Indian Wells
Tennis Garden, the doubles final of the first Masters 1000 of the season.
They will face Nikola Mektic and Wesley Koolhof.
It will be the 41st final on the
tour
for the winningest Argentine doubles player of all time, who has a record of 20 wins and 20 losses and will be able to leave with a balance in his favor this afternoon.
In addition, he will go in search of his seventh title in this category of tournaments (the sixth with Granollers) and to jump to fourth place in the ATP ranking.
Curiously, the only M1000 trophy that "Cebolla" lifted without the Spaniard was, precisely, in Indian Wells and in pairs with who today will be one of his rivals, the Croatian Mektic.
Indian Wells 2019 was the only title of the Mektic-Zeballos duo, who will now face each other.
Photo: Matthew Stockman/Getty Images/AFP
Zeballos and Granollers have just taken revenge on the Italians Bolelli and Vavassori
, who beat them in the final of the ATP 250 in Buenos Aires and in their debut at the ATP 500 in Rio de Janeiro.
The third time was the charm and now the victory went to the Mar del Plata and the Catalan by a tight 4-6, 7-6 and 10-8.
And at the end in the California desert.
They will seek their first title of 2024 and shout champion again since they last did so in October last year, when they won in Shanghai (another Masters 1000), after beating the Indian Bopanna and the Australian Ebden.
The pending score is still to win the Grand Slam, with the thorn still stuck in having fallen in the finals of the US Open 2019 and Wimbledon in 2021 and 2023.
Wesley and Koolhof, meanwhile, overwhelmingly surpassed the Germans Puetz and Krawietz: it was 6-2 and 6-1 in just 56 minutes of play.
Their big week also includes a victory against Krajicek and Dodig, the second seeds.
They will be a rival to fear.
The 20 titles of Horacio Zeballos
Buenos Aires 2010 as a couple with Sebastián Prieto.
Munich 2011 (Simone Bolelli)
San Pablo 2016 (Julio Peralta)
Gstaad 2016 (Julio Peralta)
Atlanta 2016 (Andrés Molteni)
Metz 2016 (Julio Peralta)
Houston 2017 (Julio Peralta)
Buenos Aires 2018 (Andrés Molteni)
Bastad 2018 (Julio Peralta)
Hamburg 2018 (Julio Peralta)
Buenos Aires 2019 (Máximo González)
M1000 Indian Wells 2019 (Nikola Mektic)
M1000 Montreal 2019 (Marcelo Granollers)
Buenos Aires 2020 (Marcel Granollers)
Rio de Janeiro 2020 (Marcel Granollers)
M1000 Rome 2020 (Marcel Granollers)
M1000 Madrid 2021 (Marcel Granollers)
Cincinnati 2021 (Marcelo Granollers)
M1000 Halle 2022 (Marcel Granollers)
M1000 Shanghai 2023 (Marcel Granollers)