Horacio Zeballos, champion in Madrid: the specialist who agigates his legend in Argentine tennis

Horacio Zeballos He turned 40 on April 27 and can still say that he is in the fullness of his career. Who was Double number 1 in 2024added another ATP Masters 1000 to his prolific career with the great consecration in the Madrid Open 2025 Next to Spanish Marcel Granollersa title that is attached to its enormous story in Argentine tennis.

The Marplatense had idols to Goran Ivanisevic and Thomas Muster in their beginnings. In singles he beat one Rafael Nadal And in brick dust!, Juan Martín del Potro, David Nalbandian, Fernando González, David Goffin, to Ivo Karlović, Gaël Monfils and Gilles Simon, inter alia. But he looked for a better place on the court. One shared.

Since 2019 it is dedicated full time to the shared tennis modality and won a title behind another. There are 24 in total (21 more finals), nine of Masters 1000 category, surpassing no less than Guillermo Vilas, hero of Argentine sport.

Reached three Grand Slam finals (In the 2019 United States Open and in the Wimbledon 2021 and 2023) championships and one in the ATP finals. Played Olympics (Tokyo 2020+1) and innumerable Davis Cup series always hand in hand Alejandro Lombardo, his coach and friend.

Changed and changed couples several times to season: Julio Peralta, Máximo González, Andrés Molteni, etc. Won the Silver Olympia for the best Argentine tennis player of the 2021 season, Thanks to excellent performance in that year, winning with Granollers Los Masters 1000 de Cincinnati and Madrid, In addition to playing the Wimbledon final of that year.

Consequently, the asshole fan who beat the sea wind when he was a kid in a pediment of the Edison Lawn Tennis While receiving his father’s advice, he has less and less dreams to fulfill at the sports level. You know what it is to be a No. 1, now it goes for a great slam.