Cabal and Farah are doubles champions at the US Open

The Colombian couple Juan Sebastián Cabal and Robert Farah, first series heads, were proclaimed champions of men's doubles of the United States Open by beating in the final 6-4 and 7-5 to the compound by the Spanish Marcel Granollers and the Argentine Horacio Zeballos, eighth favorites.

The triumph of Cabal and Farah, in the first fully Hispanic final that has been played in any modality in the history of the Open, allows them to also become the first Colombians and Latin Americans who get two consecutive Grand Slam titles after having won the from Wimbledon.

Cabal, 33, and Farah, 32, held the position of Americans Mike Bryan and Jack Sock, who last year won the same titles, while the Colombian couple is the third in the last four years to achieve minus two Grand Slam titles in the same season.

The new champions of the United States Open win a prize of 740 thousand dollars and claimed to be the new number one in the world. In addition, they won the 16th title together on the circuit, achieved the 2nd Grand Slam in doubles, in another unprecedented event for the region, and for the first time they won 5 tournaments in the same year.

Granollers, 33, and Zeballos, 34, who have just played their second tournament as a couple (the first was in the 1000 Masters of Canada), who won, but took a prize of 370 thousand dollars and get into the Fight to be in the ATP Race to London, where they didn't even exist a month ago.