Big-serving Dutchman Botic van de Zandschulp opened double service in the Winston-Salem on Friday to put himself in position to claim his first ATP tour title. He will meet Hungary’s Marton Fucsovics in the final of Saturday (5 p.m. Edt).
After completing a 6-3, 5-7, 6-3 victory over Buyunchaokete in a competition that was loved Thursday due to rain, backup of the world no. 92 to remove the French powerhouse Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard 6-4, 7-5.
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“It was quite fast two hours [between matches] But I think I’ll be fine tonight, “said the 29-year-old, whose two earlier finals at Tour level in Munich arrived in 2022-23.
Van de Zandschulp was a semi-finalist in Winston-Salem in 2022 and held Mpetshi Perricard against only seven Azen and won 12 of 19 points on the second serve of the 22-year-old on the way to claiming three service providers.
“You have to play your own service games very well. If you are broken once, the set is usually over … try to return, you try to adjust your position a bit, guessing where it is going to serve. Commenting is pretty difficult, so you have to guess a little.”
The game seemed to be on the way to a third set before Van de Zandschulp broke when he remained 3-5 in the second with a bit of brave mains. “You get some confidence of that,” he said. “I was happy that I broke him again at 5-5 and served pretty well at 6-5.”
Fucsovics, 33, went on to his fifth final at tour level when Sebastian Korda withdrew from their planned semi-final. The World No. 94 won the Bucharest title last year, six years after his only other title in Geneva in 2018.
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