{"id":23393,"date":"2025-07-25T16:02:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T16:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/23393\/"},"modified":"2025-07-25T16:02:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T16:02:12","slug":"generali-open-cazaux-reaches-his-first-atp-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/23393\/","title":{"rendered":"Generali Open: Cazaux reaches his first ATP final"},"content":{"rendered":"

Arthur Cazaux\u2019s beautiful summer continues. A semifinalist in Gstaad last week, the Frenchman reached a new milestone by advancing to the final of the Kitzb\u00fchel tournament this Friday. To get there, he defeated the No. 6 seed Arthur Rinderknech (7-5, 6-3)<\/a> on the Austrian clay.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s the first time in his career that the 22-year-old has reached this stage of an ATP Tour event. His impressive week in Austria will allow him to make a significant leap in the ATP rankings. He is virtually ranked 75th in the world, a jump of 25 spots.<\/p>\n

This Friday, Arthur Cazaux handled the rainy conditions better. The match was interrupted for a long period while he was leading 4-3, followed by another short delay at 4-4 in the first set.<\/p>\n

I hope to keep this momentum going tomorrow<\/p>\n

The two players were evenly matched until 6-5, when Arthur Rinderknech faltered on his serve. Cazaux hit a down-the-line forehand winner to earn the first break point of the match, then followed up with another forehand acceleration at 30-40 to take the opening set.<\/p>\n

The world No. 100 carried his momentum into the second set, breaking his opponent early to race to a 3-0 lead \u2014 an advantage he maintained without facing a single break point on his own serve.<\/p>\n


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\u201cI\u2019m very happy, tennis is such a tough sport and I\u2019m in a final for the first time in my career \u2014 I couldn\u2019t be happier,\u201d said the winner. \u201cI think that was the longest first set of my career! It wasn\u2019t easy with the rain, but I managed to stay focused. I hope to keep this momentum going tomorrow.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cazaux, ranked No 100, will play the winner of the match between Kazakh Alexander Bublik, the top seed, and Dutchman Botic van de Zandschulp next.<\/p>\n

Ahead of his victory, Arthur Cazaux won against German qualifier Jan-Lennard Struff (6-3, 6-4), Argentinian Francisco Comesana, the No 7 seed (6-4, 7-6 (7)) and Peruvian Ignacio Buse (6-3, 3-6, 7-5).<\/p>\n

Rinderknech, ranked No 65, defeated German qualifier Yannick Hanfmann (6-4, 3-6, 6-1), Slovak qualifier Norbert Gombos (6-7 (3), 6-4, 6-4) and Argentinian qualifier Facundo Bagnis (7-6 (4), 4-6, 6-3) in the previous rounds of the Kitzbuhel tournament.<\/p>\n

Kitzbuhel ATP 250, other semi-final result (Kitzb\u00fchel Tennis Club, clay, EUR 596.035):<\/p>\n

Alexander Bublik vs. Botic van de Zandschulp<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Arthur Cazaux\u2019s beautiful summer continues. A semifinalist in Gstaad last week, the Frenchman reached a new milestone by…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23394,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":{"0":"post-23393","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23393\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}