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Surprise in Róterdam: Bellucci drowns Medvedev with his inventiveness

First Italian victory against a top 10

February 05, 2025

Mattia Bellucci has noticed this Wednesday throughout the world of tennis. No. 92 of the PIF ATP Rankings won the ninth triumph of his career in the main cadres of the ATP Tour, but the largest according to the ranks when overcoming 6-3, 6-7 (6), 6-3 to No. 7 Daniil Medvedev at the ABN Amro Open of Róterdam.

Bellucci’s best victory had been against then No. 32 Adrian Mannarino in Atlanta 2024. But this Wednesday, the 23 -year -old left -hand 500 from Róterdam in two hours and 54 minutes.

He could even have prevailed in corridos sets if he had taken advantage of the 4-1 and 5-2 advantage in the second partial, as well as the Match Point in the 6/5 of the tiebreaker. However, he did not lower his guard and continued to show his entire repertoire: from rhythm changes from the bottom of the track to the bottom, left and balloons.

In addition, he showed an incredible effectiveness with the serve by saving eleven twelve Break Points. He even saved the six he faced in the decisive, in which he took the only opportunity to break that generated with the return in 4-3.

“I really tried to enjoy every minute,” Bellucci said. “I tried to have fun on the court and be myself as much as possible. I don’t want to be disrespectful.

Bellucci began this week with 1-1 ATP record in the season, and releasing ranking after his promotion to No. 92. With this triumph his second classification is ensured to some ATP rooms, but first to a larger tournament than an ATP 250 , and go up to No. 76 of the live ranking, so it guarantees a better ranking from Monday.

For a place in its first semifinals, the Italian will measure in the next round to Stefanos Tsitsipas or Tallon Griekspoor.

The other who advanced to the quarterfinals since Thursday was Hubert Hurkacz. The Polish, eighth head of the series, won 7-5, 2-0 when his rival, the Czech Jiri Leheckka, had to retire due to injury at 55 minutes of play. His next rival will be Andrey Rublev or Fabian Marozsan.