{"id":820211,"date":"2026-10-31T23:18:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-31T23:18:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/820211\/"},"modified":"2026-10-31T23:18:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-31T23:18:12","slug":"tallon-griekspoor-fails-to-reach-paris-masters-after-first-round-exit-in-qualifiers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/820211\/","title":{"rendered":"Tallon Griekspoor fails to reach Paris Masters after first-round exit in qualifiers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former Dutch No. 1 Tallon Griekspoor failed to reach the main draw of the Paris Masters after losing to Benjamin Bonzi in the first round of qualifying: 3-6, 7-6 (5), 3-6.<\/p>\n

Griekspoor<\/a> was forced into the qualifiers after falling just short of the required ranking, with his 50th spot earning him the second seed in qualifying.<\/p>\n

Against wild card Benjamin Bonzi<\/a>, Griekspoor had a shaky start and soon fell behind after the Frenchman converted on his second break point to make it 3-1. Griekspoor rebounded on his third break point, but couldn’t hold on to the momentum and fell to a fired-up Bonzi to lose another opening set.<\/p>\n

The second set was a Griekspoor classic, with the Dutchman finding his rhythm on serve and not allowing a single break point. Bonzi repeated the feat, making a do-or-die tiebreak necessary. Two consecutive mini-breaks helped Griekspoor win the set, which he had to wait for after failing to clinch his first three set points.<\/p>\n

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The two stayed close together in the third and final set, but Griekspoor lost focus and lost his third service game on love to hand Bonzi the initiative. The 99th-ranked Frenchman fended off two break points to stay firmly in control and eventually clinch the match on his first match point.<\/p>\n

The defeat is a new low for Griekspoor, who won the Brussels title one week ago and went toe-to-toe with Alexander Zverev in Vienna. There will be one tournament left for the Dutchman to recover crucial ranking points, with the Bybit Stockholm Open scheduled for November 8-14.<\/p>\n

Catch up with the full match statistics on Flashscore<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Dutch No. 1 Tallon Griekspoor failed to reach the main draw of the Paris Masters after losing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":820212,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-820211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820211","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=820211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/820211\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/820212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=820211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=820211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=820211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}