Van de Zandschulp leaves Fritz out in Munich

The Dutchman will be in the final in Munich. Van de Zandschulp had a great match against Fritz (6-4, 7-6 (2)) to reach his second ATP final. The other was also in Munich and coincidentally it happened last season.

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With Holger Rune in the final of Munich the second semifinal faced Fritz contra From the Sand Scallop. The American was the favorite after beating Fucsvocis and Dominic Thiem. On the other side, a Botic Van de Zandschulp was waiting, who had just beaten Karatsev and Giron. In the face to face a previous confrontation in the Davis Cup and the winner was the Dutchman, although this time the favoritism fell on the American.

Van de Zandschulp sorprende a Fritz

Both started very successful with their serves, something that was to be expected since they both have great serves. After passing halfway through the first set, in the seventh game, Van de Zandschulp managed a break that after confirming sent him up to 5-3. Taylor Fritz was suffering a lot and he was not successful with the first services. Besides Van de Zandschulp was dominating with his punches and although he could not take advantage of two set balls to the rest in the ninth game, then with his service after saving a breaking ball against he took the first set by 6-4 in 42 minutes.

The Dutchman came out very plugged into the second set, wanting to end the duel as soon as possible. He quickly left until 2-0. Things didn’t work out for Taylor Fritz, but he was able after fighting to make it 3-3. He even came back to command with 4-3. Suddenly Botic Van de Zandschulp was getting trapped and had to save two set points against, although he did it with a lot of personality and they finally went to the tie break. Here after that bad situation that he had overcome, Van de Zandschulp 7-2, being brave, he ended up taking the second set and the match to be the other player who will dispute the title in the grand final of the ATP in Munich.