Orlando Luz dropped to his knees in tears on the court at Mason's Lindner Family Tennis Center on Sunday, Aug. 23, after he and partner Rafael Matos clinched the Cincinnati Open men's doubles championship with Brazilian flags waving in the stands.

The pair defeated Germany's Constantin Frantzen and the Netherlands' Robin Haase 6-4, 3-6, 10-7 in a match that stretched one hour and 17 minutes, decided by a final-set tiebreaker. It was the fourth title of 2026 for the Brazilian tandem and their fifth career doubles crown together, WLWT reported.

The win put Matos and Luz in rare company. They became only the fifth team in the Open Era to sweep the Canadian Open and Cincinnati Open men's doubles titles in the same season, according to the Cincinnati Open's official recap. The others: Bruce Manson and Brian Teacher (1980), Bob and Mike Bryan (2010), Ivan Dodig and Marcelo Melo (2016), and Pierre-Hugues Herbert and Nicolas Mahut (2017).

Earlier in August, Matos and Luz became the first all-Brazilian team to win an ATP Masters 1000 title when they claimed the Canadian Open in Montreal. They carried a nine-match winning streak into Sunday's final after beating Hugo Nys and Edouard Roger-Vasselin in Saturday's semifinal.

Luz, 28, had never advanced beyond the second round of a Masters 1000 tournament before this month's run.

"We're pretty grateful and proud of the work we put in, and after the match point, I just couldn't stand up anymore," Luz said after the final. "Being the first 100 percent Brazilian pair to make it, it's even more special."

The atmosphere stood out for a doubles final, an event that typically draws smaller crowds than singles. Brazilian fans packed the stands and turned the Mason venue into something closer to a soccer match, waving green-and-yellow flags as their countrymen closed out the title.

Matos, holding the Rookwood Cup, looked around at the crowd in apparent disbelief. He called it "an incredible two weeks" and thanked his family, his fiancée and friends back home who had been sending messages throughout the tournament.

The pair first joined forces in 2019 and have won titles in Santiago and Buenos Aires this year in addition to Montreal and Mason.

The 127th edition of the Cincinnati Open, an ATP Masters 1000 and WTA 1000 event held at the Lindner Family Tennis Center on Legacy Park Way, drew an expected 300,000-plus attendees across its Aug. 8 through Aug. 23 run. The tournament is the second-oldest in the United States, behind only the U.S. Open.

The U.S. Open begins Tuesday, Aug. 25, in New York.