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Griekspoor slows Gasquet and advances in Montpellier

January 30, 2025

Finally, the battle was in the hands of Tallon Griekspoor. The fifth head of the series was the one who had the most and continued with his feats on Thursday at the Open Occitie in Montpellier, where he stopped the last appearance of the local favorite Richard Gasquet in the ATP 250 with a 6-3 victory, 3-6 , 7-5 against the three times champion.

With 25 victories on covered track since the beginning of the 2023 season, Griekspoor is only surpassed by No. 1 of the PIF ATP Rankings, Jannik Sinner (33), as the maximum winner of the ATP Tour.

Griekspoor, 28, was tested for two hours and three minutes by Gasquet, ten years older than him. Griekspoor struggled against six break points in the decisive set, including four in 4-4 that would have allowed Gasquet to serve the game if I had turned them.

“I don’t know how I got with mine,” Griekspoor said in his interview on the track. “I guess I had a bit of luck. I also had many seconds, you take away, a little luck.

“First of all, a great applause for Richard,” Griekspoor said. “An incredible career, he has achieved so much. If I can get a bit of what he has achieved in his career, he would sign absolutely for it,” he said.

Meanwhile, this Thursday, January 30, it is not another day in Jesper de Jong’s career. The Dutch managed to advance to the quarterfinals of an ATP Tour tournament for the first time, thanks to the greatest victory of his career. Of Jong, which currently occupies No. 131 of the PIF ATP Rankings, defeated in the second round of Open Occitanie in Montpellier to the head of series No. 3 Flavio Cobolli 6-3, 7-6 (2) In one hour and 56 minutes And he will be the next rival of his compatriot Griekspoor.

It is the second time that he beats a rival classified in the top 50, since before surpassing Cobolli (No. 34 of the world), he had also surprised last year in the first round of Roland Garros al No. 39 Jack Draper. In this way, leave your record in front of players of this level in 1-4.

With an impeccable performance with his service, with which he signed 9 ACES and secured 90% of the points he put into play with first serves, according to the Infosys ATP statistics, he managed to link two victories in a row for the first time in the same tournament.

At the close of the day, Nikoloz Basilashvili defeated the seventh manager Arthur Rinderknech 6-0 and 7-6 (4) to reach its first quarterfinals in the circuit from Munich 2022. Basilashvili, No. 178 of the world, which, which He has become No. 16, is Montpellier’s quarterfinalist with the lowest ranking since No. 210 Tsonga in 2019. The 32 -year -old now faces the head of the series Andrey Rublev. His Lexus ATP Head2head series is tied at 3-3.