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Rune termina el invicto de tsitsipas

Will measure Griekspoor in the quarterfinals of Indian Wells

March 11, 2025

Holger Rune needed a triumph like this Tuesday for his confidence: in a great stadium like the BNP Paribas Open and before a rival in way as Stefanos Tsitsipas. Apart with a huge forcefulness: 6-4, 6-4 in less than an hour and a half of play.

The reward for getting it is giant: not only will it play about a quarter of Masters 1000 for the ninth time, but also adds its first victory of the year to a member of the Top 10 of the PIF ATP Rankings. And all this comes at a critical moment of the 21 -year -old Danish season.

The world No. 13 reached the California desert without multiple victories in a single tournament from the Australian Open, and having retired in its second duel in Acapulco for poisoning. The Danish has chosen a stage of height to confirm his promotion: before a rival with victory in his last seven games.

Tsitsipas had also won his last 42 service games. But this Tuesday he could only hold his first three of the match. In the fourth service shift, Rune broke in 30 with a Winner, and once again in 4-4 to start making a difference before one of his favorite rivals, against which he now has 4-0 record.

In the second Set he broke once again in 2-2 and did not look back on his way to his ninth victory of the season to become the first Scandinavian in Indian Wells rooms in years in a row from the Swedish Stefan Edberg in 1994-1995. Now Rune has only lost a partial in his rivalry with Tsitsipas, and has won seven including those on Tuesday.

“I think it was an excellent match from beginning to end,” Rune said after his ninth classification to some rooms of 1000 Masters, thanks to his first victory against a Top 10 from Paris 2024 (v. A of Miñaur). “I was very committed to my game plan and mentally I was very good. I think that made the difference, the serenity with which I could start. It was a great battle. ”

The opponent in Thursday’s rooms will be Tallon Griekspoor, who leads 2-0 the Lexus ATP Headtohead between them.

Griekspoor confirms that his great moment is not a passenger
The name of Tallon Giekspoor is playing more and more strongly in recent weeks in the ATP Tour. And it is that the Dutch was the first player to take a ticket to the quarterfinals of the BNP Paribas Open on Tuesday.

No. 43 of the PIF ATP Rankings gave continuity to its great moment in form, by defeating one of the great surprises of the first ATP Masters 1000 of the course, Yosuke Watanuki, by 7-6 (4), 6-1, in an hour and 26 minutes.

Nothing can, for now, with the Dutch. Not even the rain, which forced to delay the beginning of the day in Indian Wells an hour later than scheduled and reappeared when the score was 7-6 (4), 4-1, 0/40.

But Griekspoor made its way in the quarterfinals, winning five of the next six points in the resumption. In this way, he appeared so far in an ATP Masters 1000 tournament for the first time. And he has succeeded by leaving the main series head and No. 2 of the world Alexander Zverev, just a few days after beating No. 6 Daniil Medvedev in Dubai.

Did you know what …?
Tallon Griekspoor is the fifth Dutch who reaches the quarterfinals in the history of BNP Paribas Open, after Tom Okker (1979), Paul Haarhuis (1996), Richard Krajicek (1999) and Sjeng Schalken (2000).