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\n Bonzi continues his ‘Opelka October’ with Brussels win<\/p>\n
Giron sinks Bellucci on Day 1 at ATP 250<\/p>\n
October 13, 2025<\/p>\n
Jasper Jacobs\/Belga Mag\/AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n
Benjamin Bonzi overcomes Reilly Opelka on Monday in Brussels.
\n By Andy West<\/p>\n
Benjamin Bonzi<\/a> successfully blunted Reilly Opelka<\/a>\u2019s big-serving game for the second time this month on Monday at the BNP Paribas Fortis European Open<\/a>. <\/p>\n Just 11 days after Bonzi downed the six-foot, 11-inch American in straight sets in Shanghai, the No. 53 in the PIF ATP Rankings repeated that result with a 6-4, 6-4 victory in Brussels. Bonzi withstood 13 aces from Opelka and forged a decisive five-game streak from 3-3 in the opening set en route to a 70-minute triumph at the indoor hard-court ATP 250. <\/p>\n \u201cOf course it\u2019s easier when you played someone the past week, and I knew how he would serve,\u201d said Bonzi in his on-court interview. \u201cBut it\u2019s completely different conditions here than Shanghai. It was way slower in China. Here it is pretty fast. It\u2019s indoors, so his serve is way more efficient. <\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m very happy with the way I managed to return his serve and play the points when I succeeded in putting the ball back in the court. It was a great first match here.\u201d <\/p>\n Now 14-19 for the season, according to the Infosys ATP Win\/Loss Index, Bonzi will take on sixth seed Sebastian Baez<\/a> or his countryman Valentin Royer<\/a> in the second round in Brussels. The 29-year-old is looking to build on an impressive record at indoor events: He finished his 2024 season with a 21-1 run indoors (including ATP Challenger Tour events), highlighted by lifting his maiden ATP Tour crown in Metz. <\/p>\n Marcos Giron<\/a> was the other first-round winner on Monday in Brussels. The American eased past Mattia Bellucci<\/a> 6-3, 6-4 to set a meeting with fourth seed Alejandro Davidovich Fokina<\/a>. Giron has not won a set across two previous Lexus ATP Head2Head clashes with the Spaniard, although they have not met since the 2023 US Open<\/a>. <\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brussels Bonzi continues his ‘Opelka October’ with Brussels win Giron sinks Bellucci on Day 1 at ATP 250…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":197633,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-197632","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-sports","9":"tag-tennis","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197632","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197632\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}