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Colombia · born Cali, 1986 · Wimbledon doubles champion 2019 with Robert Farah, the first Colombians to win a Wimbledon title
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4h 57m
Length of the 2019 Wimbledon doubles final, the first four sets all tiebreaks
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Colombian winners of a Wimbledon title, with Robert Farah in 2019
31st
Major played together by Cabal and Farah when they won Wimbledon
19
ATP titles with Farah, among them Wimbledon and the US Open in 2019
Born in Cali in 1986, Cabal started playing at seven because his family lived near the Club de Tequendama. He met Robert Farah at an under-eights tournament in the city. Farah proposed a doubles partnership at a wedding in 2009, and in 2010 they started out together on the Futures and Challenger circuits. In 2011 Cabal reached the French Open doubles final with the Argentine Eduardo Schwank, which opened the way to tour events, and that summer he and Farah made their tour debut as a team at Wimbledon.
With Farah he won 19 ATP titles, including the Italian Open in 2018 and 2019. In 2019 they won Eastbourne, Wimbledon and the US Open, became joint world No. 1 after Wimbledon and finished the year as the No. 1 team and ITF World Champions: the first Colombians to reach No. 1, win a major or win a Masters 1000 event. Cabal also won the 2017 Australian Open mixed doubles with Abigail Spears, took doubles gold at the 2011 Pan American Games and played three Olympics, reaching the quarter-finals in Tokyo with Farah.
Cabal and Farah announced their retirement in August 2023. Their last tour match was a second-round defeat at the US Open that year.
| Wimbledon 2011 | Debut as a pair at a major on grass: beat the fourth seeds Rohan Bopanna and Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi 2-6, 6-2, 21-19 in the first round |
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| Eastbourne 2019 | Their first title on grass, a surface where they had long struggled: beat Máximo González and Horacio Zeballos 3-6, 7-6 (7-4), 10-6 at Devonshire Park |
| Wimbledon 2019 final | Seeded second, beat Nicolas Mahut and Edouard Roger-Vasselin 6-7 (5-7), 7-6 (7-5), 7-6 (8-6), 6-7 (5-7), 6-3 on Centre Court. There was no break of serve until the fourth set, and the roof was closed for the fifth |
| Wimbledon 2023 | Lost in the first round to Marcel Granollers and Horacio Zeballos 6-7 (6-8), 7-6 (7-2), 7-6 (11-9), one of the few best-of-three-set matches at Wimbledon with a tiebreak in every set |
| Wimbledon | ||
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| 2019 | Men's doubles | with Robert Farah |
| Eastbourne | ||
| 2019 | Men's doubles | with Robert Farah |
Leading grass titles only: the grass majors, tour-level grass events since 1968 and the leading grass championships before 1968. † single source; ‡ sources disagree. Roll of champions
"That was the proof that processes bear results."
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Cali, childhood
Cabal and Farah met at an under-eights tournament in Cali. Cabal, about a year older, won their early singles meetings, which upset Farah. Decades later Cabal said of his partner: "He hasn't been a friend for some time, he's family."
Source: ATP Tour, 20232009
The partnership was Farah's idea, put to Cabal at a wedding in 2009. They began on the Futures and Challenger circuits the next year and went on to win 19 ATP titles together, including two majors, with 345 tour-level match wins as a pair.
Source: ATP Tour, 2023Bogotá, July 2019
Two days after the Wimbledon final Colombia's president, Iván Duque, awarded Cabal the Great Cross of the Order of Merit. The title had come in the pair's 31st major together.
Source: ATP Tour player biographyWimbledon 2019
The doubles final on the Saturday lasted 4 hours 57 minutes. The gentlemen's singles final the next day became the longest in Wimbledon history at exactly the same length.
Source: Wimbledon Compendium 2025 (AELTC)Cali
Known as Sebas, Cabal grew up idolising Pete Sampras. He dedicated the 2019 US Open title to Roberto Cocheteux, founder of the Colsanitas tennis club, which he represented.
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