Marcel Granollers/Horacio Zeballos Battle To Halle Final | ATP Tour

Marcel Granollers and Horacio Zeballos opened their Terra Wortmann Open marketing campaign with a pair of comfy straight-sets victories earlier this week in Halle, however issues weren’t so simple for the highest seeds on Friday.

The Spanish-Argentine pairing recovered a 1-4 deficit earlier than taking the opening set on a tie-break of their semi-final in opposition to fourth seeds Ivan Dodig and Austin Krajicek. Though Dodig and Krajicek responded by taking the second-set tie-break, it was the Granollers and Zeballos who prevailed by holding their nerve to clinch a 7-6(6), 6-7(4), 10-8 victory with their third match level.

They’ll now play for his or her first ATP Tour title since 2021 in Cincinnati in Sunday’s championship match, the place they are going to face Roland Garros champions Marcelo Arevalo and Jean-Julien Rojer or third seeds Tim Puetz and Michael Venus.

Mektic/Pavic Dig Deep For Closing Berth In London
There was additionally Match Tie-break drama on Friday on the Cinch Championships in London, the place second seeds Nikola Mektic and Mate Pavic got here via a nail-biting semi-final conflict with Taylor Fritz and Tommy Paul to safe a maiden championship match look on the ATP 500 occasion.

Mektic and Pavic held their nerve from 7/7 within the Match Tie-break at The Queen’s Membership to safe a 5-7, 6-2, 10-8 victory in opposition to their American opponents. The Croatians are searching their third title of 2022 in London, after additionally lifting trophies this 12 months in Dubai and Belgrade. Their opponents in Sunday’s championship match might be Lloyd Glasspool and Harri Heliovaara or Rohan Bopanna and Denis Shapovalov.