(FILA Global) - FILA sponsored tennis player Horacio Zeballos and partner Nikola Mektic won the BNP Paribas Open men’s doubles title Saturday evening, defeating the No. 6 seeded team of Lukascz Kubot and Marcelo Melo 4-6, 6-4, 10-3.
Playing in just their second tournament together, the duo secured incredible upsets over Edmund/Skupski, Herbert/Mahut [1], Cabal/Farah [5] and Marach/Pavic [3] en route to a championship victory over Kubot and Melo.
The win makes Zeballos the first Argentine to win the BNP Paribas Open doubles title since 1976. It is his second circuit title of 2019 and 12th of his career.