Tallon Griekspoor maintained his cool in his maiden ATP Tour semi-final Friday at the Tata Open Maharashtra, where the Dutchman finished a 7-6( 4 ), 6-1 triumph versus 8th seedAslan Karatsev
Griekspoor won a single-season document of 8 ATP Challenger Tour titles in 2021, however the 26-year-old had actually not been past the quarter-finals of a tour-level occasion before today inIndia The unseeded Dutchman will certainly handle his fellow citizen and also 2nd seed Botic van de Zandschulp or France’s Benjamin Bonzi in Saturday’s champion suit.
“It’s great. It’s something you work for, something you dream of,” claimed Griekspoor of reaching his very first ATP Tour final. “That was a goal coming into this year. To do it in the first week of the year is great, but the tournament is not over, there is one more match left. So [I will] try to keep focusing on that one.”
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