Melo and Matos exceed the Spaniards in the final of couples and Rio Open has the 1st 100% national title

The Brazilians were champions by defeating the Spanish Pedro Martínez and Jaume Munar

The experience of Marcelo Melo and the energy of Rafael Matos They have returned to work in this Rio open. The Brazilians were champions of the double key on Saturday evening, beating the Pedro Martínez and Jaume Munar Spanish in the last 2 sets out of 0, with partial 6/2 and 7/5. The first Brazilian to be champion of the Rio tournament last year, Matos now becomes the first two -stroke champion followed by ATP 500.

In the 2024 edition, the tennis player at 29 raised the trophy with the Colombian Nicolás Barrientos. This year, the title was 100%national, with apple. This is the greatest result of the duo, which played together since the end of 2023. Last year they won the first tournament together, in the Stuttgart grass, ATP 250 competition.

For Melo, 41 years old, the victory marks a redemption in the clay of the open river. The veteran tried for the third time to reach the title, after being a deputy in 2023 and 2014, with other partners. The veteran has reached its 39th trophy in the circuit, becoming the active tennis player with more titles in couples, drawing with Croatian companion Pavic – in total, the Brazilian adds 77 finals.

The result leaves the couple in sixth position in the ATP ranking, to be officially updated on Monday, on 24.

“About 18 years have passed since double play. I was the number 1 in the world, I won Roland Garros AND WimbledonBut that’s right here it is not. We hear a lot. I am 41 years old and everyone around me know how much I like tennis and I wanted this title. I was very intelligent to choose Rafa to show me the path of the stones. They already said I should stop, but I’m crazy about tennis. I carry the experience and Rafa brings the race to youth “, celebrated Melo without hiding the emotion.

Matos, in turn, praised the partnership with the veteran and said he was the one who chose Melo to form a double. “I just wanted to say that it was not Marcelo to choose me. I had to ask him three times to accept to play with me. Being in Rio Open, Brazil, with all this crowd, is indescribable. The energy that passes appears here in La Corte It was a tactical battle (This end) And we did it to deserve, “he said.

With a huge support for the fans, who had João Fonseca in the stands, Melo and Matos raised the audience every point on Saturday evening, almost Dawn on Sunday. The party was bigger in the sixth game when they got the first pause of the game and opened 4/2. Without difficulty, they supported the advantage and closed the set.

The second part was more pasta, from the first points. The Brazilians had to overcome three pause points in the seventh game, in the most tense time of the partial. In the tenth game, the national duo had a successful meeting point. After the suffocation, Melo and Matos imposed themselves in the twelfth game, with a rupture, and sacrao the title.

Source: Terra

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