the essentials A Dantesque epilogue: 13/11 in the tie-break of the third set! Thursday October 19, in Belgium, the Stade player emerged victorious from a frenzied game against the German right-hander, Jan Lennard Struff. Gaston will play another German opponent, starting this Friday, for a place in the semi-finals.
Beating a Top 30. The left-hander from Stade Toulousain had not produced such a performance for a year and a half. It was precisely on May 24, 2022 in his garden at Roland-Garros – which had revealed him to the general public two years earlier (eighth-finalist in 2020, against the Austrian Dominic Thiem, fight lost in the fifth set) – against the Australian Alex De Minaur whom he defeated after a five-round fight.
Best career wins:
??RG20 Stan Wawrinka (N°17)
??Bercy 21 Pablo Carreno-Busta (N°17)
??Gstaad 21 Cristian Garin (N°19)
??RG22 Alex De Minaur (N°20)
??Miami 22 John Isner (N°22)
? ??Anvers 23 Jan-Lennard Struff (N°27)— Hugo Gaston ???? (@HugoGastonFra) October 19, 2023
This Thursday afternoon, this time it was three fierce sets that it took for Hugo Gaston (96th in the ATP, 23 years old) to afford a trip to the quarterfinals. Victim of the day, the German number two seed in the tournament Jan Lennard Struff (No. 27, 33 years old): 5-7, 7-6 [7/5]7-6 [13/11] who succeeds, Monday evening, the Frenchman Arthur Rinderknech (82nd, 28 years old), who fell by the wayside in two rounds but just as contested (7-6 [9/7]6-4).
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Tennis: Toulouse left-hander Hugo Gaston beats Arthur Rinderknech in Antwerp and signs his fourth victory of the season
Trailing 1-0 this Thursday, the little left-hander (1m73) first equalized via the tie-break (7/5) before winning in a decisive game that was almost an anthology given the score (13/11) . Like the scenario: Gaston will save no less than three match points! Without forgetting the duration of the match – hard and indoor: 2h52′ (3rd longest match of his career).
HUGO GASTON LADIES AND GENTLEMEN???#EuropeanOpenpic.twitter.com/WAuQ3g1GJH
— Tennis Universe? (@UniversTennis) October 19, 2023
He joins two other Tricolores Arthur Fils (N°38) and Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard (N°226) at the quarter-final stage of the Belgian event (ATP250, €673,630). But it is another German who is waiting for him, from this Friday, October 20 (start of hostilities scheduled for 4 p.m.), in this case Maximilian Marterer (No. 127, 28 years old); who certainly got rid of Richard Gasquet (6-3, 6-4 in 16th) however the left-handed giant (1m91) remains “on the ropes” of the Stade member.
A half, please: first chance since June 2022
With this fifth victory of the season on the main circuit (75% of breaks saved, 9 aces), Hugo Gaston will play his place in the last four for the first time since June 2022 and the grass tournament in Bois-le-Duc, the famous ‘s-Hertogenbosch of Rosmalen in the Netherlands.
2023-10-19 18:41:00
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