Tallon Greek track in first ATP final, possibly first Dutch final since 1995 | Tennis

Greek track won the first set 7-6, after which he drove his opponent insane in the second set. Karatsev, who had beaten Tim van Rijthoven earlier in the week, smashed his racket and was very frustrated by the Dutchman’s excellent play. Greek track won the second set 6-1, which means that the 26-year-old tennis player is in the final of an ATP tournament for the first time. This makes him the first Dutchman in the final of a hard court tournament since Robin Haase in Vienna in 2013.

,,It feels great to start the year like this,’ saidGreekspoor, who may play against a compatriot tomorrow in the final. Botic van de Zandschulp will soon play in the other semi-final against the Frenchman Benjamin Bonzi. Will Van de Zandschulp win? Then follows the first completely Dutch final since 1995. Then Richard Krajicek and Paul Haarhuis were in the final of the ATP tournament in Rotterdam. ,,Of course that would be great.

Arantxa Rus has reached the semi-finals of the doubles in the Auckland WTA tournament in New Zealand with her Slovak partner Viktoria Kuzmova. The duo defeated Mexican Fernanda Contreras Gomez and American Cahterine Harrison in the quarterfinals: 1-6 6-4 10-7. In the semifinals, Rus and Kuzmova will face Japan’s Miyu Kato and Indonesia’s Aldila Sutjiadi.

The Dutch tennis duo Robin Haase and Matwé Middelkoop have been eliminated in the quarterfinals of the doubles in the ATP tournament in Adelaide in Australia. The sixth-seeded couple bowed to Britain’s Lloyd Glasspool and Finland’s Harri Heliovaara in three sets: 3-6 7-5 6-10.

Haase and Middelkoop form a permanent couple this season. The 35-year-old Haase decided to focus almost entirely on doubles, while the four-year-older Middelkoop broke off the collaboration with Rohan Bopanna from India. In Adelaide, the pair had a bye in the first round and defeated Colombian Nicolás Barrientos and Ariel Behar from Israel in the round of 16: 7-6 (3) 7-6 (5).