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Griekspoor works his greatest miracle against Medvedev in Dubai

Tallon looks for the first ATP 500 title of his career

February 27, 2025

Tallon Griekspoor is taking advantage of borderline situations in Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships to enhance a fabulous level.

With a tennis full of variety of surprising blows and resources, the Dutch saved four match points Before Daniil Medvedev to sign 2-6, 7-6 (7) 7-5 the most important victory of his sports career. Griekspoor, who annulled three game points in the first round to Roman Safiullin and defeated the current Ugo Humbert champion in the second game, survived an even more complicated test on Thursday.

“I feel very happy with this victory,” Griekspoor said. “I have had to save some game points on the second set. Daniil is an incredible player, a great competitor. He has many years in the upper part of the ranking, so I feel satisfied to have won.”

“I think he has made a great first set. My level was not bad, but he was much superior. I have tried to stay in the game, although I was with disadvantage breakage in the second. When I recovered that break, I felt that the game spun something in my favor. I had a fortune at the points of the game, and in the tiebreak I needed several opportunities to finish.”

Above all, the party was a testament of coldness in the hands of the Central European. After attending an initial primorous manga of Medvedev, where the old No. 1 World Cup directed the ball with an impeccable precision, Tallon found his land to crack the game. A collection of cut blows, climbing to the improvised network or balloons ended up breaking the schemes of the first standard head on the other network.

Griekspoor crossed the boundary situations in the heart of the second set, getting four game balls to the rest before reaching the tiebreaker. There, after working another miracle raising a 0/4 with aroma of elimination, he definitely entered the fight for the party. A third flat manga, where just a break in the last game decided its fate, was the definitive hardness proof of the semifinals.

With the license to dream completely activated, Griekspoor will look out the definitive rounds motivated as never before. The Dutch will find a real fire test in the semifinals, where he will cross with the Greek Stefanos Tsitsipas, twice runner -up in the Emirate.

The fourth head of the Tsitsipas series achieved a 7-6 (5), 1-6 and 6-4 worked on Matteo Berrettini to reach its first semifinal since July last year and improved 4-1 in its series Lexus ATP Head2head with Berrettini.

“It is a great feeling to be back in the tournaments,” Tsitsipas said, which now has a 13-3 mark in Dubai. “It makes me smile to know that I have played a good tennis until now to get to this point. There were many ups and downs … The first set was a great effort, but I did not fulfill in the second. But it is confusing how I found myself winning at the end, because I felt that I was going through some mental battles during that game.”

Did you know that …?
Daniil Medvedev is the second active player with more individual titles on a hard track. The current No. 6 World Cup, which has managed to conquer 18 different tournaments on this surface, only follows the steps of Serbian Novak Djokovic (71).