FILE PHOTO: Tennis – Australian Open – Fourth Round – Melbourne Park, Melbourne, Australia – January 27, 2020 France’s Gael Monfils during his match against Austria’s Dominic Thiem REUTERS/Issei Kato
February 9, 2020
Top-seeded Frenchman Gael Monfils reached the championship match of the Open Sud de France with a 7-6 (4), 6-2 victory over Serbia’s Filip Krajinovic on Saturday at Montpellier.
Monfils delivered 12 aces in the 84-minute semifinal match and will be looking for his third title at the event when he faces Canada’s Vasek Pospisil. Monfils is 5-0 lifetime versus Pospisil.
Pospisil recorded a 6-3, 1-6, 7-5 upset of second-seeded Belgian David Goffin to reach the final. Pospisil recorded eight aces in the two-hour, 22-minute match, while Goffin had seven.
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Jiri Vesely hammered 28 aces and saved four match points in the third-set tiebreaker while outlasting Lithuania’s Ricardas Berankis 6-7 (8), 7-6 (3), 7-6 (7) to reach the championship match in Pune, India.
The unseeded Vesely won six of the final seven points of the tiebreaker to win a match that lasted three hours and six minutes. The Czech will face eight-seeded Egor Gerasimov in the final.
Gerasimov recorded 13 aces while posting a 7-6 (2), 6-4 victory over sixth-seeded James Duckworth of Australia in 92 minutes. It is Gerasimov’s first ATP title appearance.
–Field Level Media
