Medvedev returned to the final, but Auger fell to world no. 205

Almost five months after losing the title of Australian Open in view of Rafael Nadal the Russian is back in a final Daniel Medvedevwhich surpassed the French Adrian Mannarino by 7-5 and 7-5 to bid for the title ATP in grass from Hertogenbosch (Netherlands).

In front of him is the world No. 2 of the possibility of achieving the first title of the season in the Dutch tournament. This will have to end the local dream Tim Van Rijthoveninvited by the organization that from surprise to surprise and for the first time in his career was very close to success.

Medvedev will play his twenty-fourth final at Hertogenbosch in search of his fourteenth trophy, the first so far in 2022. He will get his second trophy on the grass after he won last year in Mallorca.

The Russian continued to rival Mannarino, a player ranked 70th in the rankings but lost to Medvedev on three of the four occasions they had previously met. Among them, two on the grass, at this same tournament, in 2016, and at Wimbledon in 2018.

The Russian, who was able to beat the Frenchman in Miami in 2019, when they last met, took revenge. After coming out well from the first set, plagued by service losses, he agreed to serve in the second. The break in the fifth game was enough to have the imbalance restored by the Frenchman in the tenth set to regain parity.

Medvedev did not lose track of the duel despite the setback and won the next two games to close out the match in an hour and 57 minutes and reach the final.

For his part, Tim Van Rijthoven, who is playing in the tournament thanks to an invitation from the organization, extended his dream by beating the Canadian. Felix Auger-Aliassime (9th) to be placed in the final of the competition taking place on the grass.

The tennis player from Roosendal, 25 years old and ranked 205th in the world, never won a match against the ATP until his presentation in the current edition of Hertogenbosch. A regular at lower ranked events, challengers and futures, his only experience on the circuit began in 2016, when he beat Czech Jiri Vesely in Winston Salem.

The first Dutchman in the final at ‘s-Hertogenbosch since 2009 🙌@timvanrijthoven defeated Auger-Aliassime 6-3 1-6 7-6.@LibemaOpen | #LibemaOpen pic.twitter.com/C9nXKayJgF

– ATP Tour (@atptour) June 11, 2022

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Van Rijthoven beat Australian Matthew Ebden in the first round, and then American Taylor Fritz, third seed. In the quarterfinals he defeated Frenchman Hugo Gaston and now, in the semifinals, the ninth player in the world, Auger-Aliassime 6-3, 1-6 and 7-6 (5).

Because of the impressive dynamics provided by his unexpected run, he won the first set 6-3, although Toni Nadal’s pupil reacted strongly and leveled the fight. The clash was resolved in the last dramatic part, unraveled in the ‘tie break’. Van Rijthoven prevailed after two hours and five minutes of duel.