{"id":84911,"date":"2025-08-22T11:47:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T11:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/84911\/"},"modified":"2025-08-22T11:47:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T11:47:07","slug":"giovanni-mpetshi-perricard-reaches-winston-salem-sfs-atp-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/84911\/","title":{"rendered":"Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard reaches Winston-Salem SFs | ATP Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        Winston-Salem<br \/>\n    Mpetshi Perricard saves four set points before storming into Winston-Salem SFs<\/p>\n<p>Korda beats Kecmanovic<\/p>\n<p>August 22, 2025<\/p>\n<p>Jared Wickerham\/Wick Photography for Winston-Salem Open<\/p>\n<p>        Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard defeats Hamad Medjedovic 7-6(8), 6-2 on Thursday at the Winston-Salem Open.<br \/>\n        By ATP Staff<\/p>\n<p>Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard clawed his way through a dramatic first set before powering into the Winston-Salem Open semi-finals on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>In two contrasting sets, the Frenchman defeated Hamad Medjedovic 7-6(8), 6-2, during which the ninth seed trailed 1\/5 in the first-set tie-break and saved four set points before stealing the opener. Mpetshi Perricard, 22, hammered 15 aces and won 83 per cent (34\/41) of his first-serve points, according to Infosys ATP Stats, to advance.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/news\/it-all-adds-up-hub\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"It All Adds Up\" style=\"width:100%;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1755863227_677_it-all-adds-up-banner.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\nMpetshi Perricard will next play <a rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/players\/yunchaokete-bu\/y09v\/overview\" target=\"_blank\">Buyunchaokete<\/a> or Botic van de Zandschulp at the ATP 250. Rain suspended play for the evening when the Dutchman led &#8216;Bu&#8217; 6-3, 4-3.<\/p>\n<p>\nHome favourite Sebastian Korda continued his comeback in convincing fashion. The 25-year-old, who is competing in his first tournament since Roland Garros due to a right shin stress fracture, downed Miomir Kecmanovic 6-1, 6-4.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cI think it was a great match. We played earlier in the year, so I took a few tactics from that match,\u201d said Korda, who leads Kecmanovic 2-1 in their Lexus ATP Head2Head series. \u201cI thought I executed pretty well, came to net quite a bit and tried to stay aggressive. Miomir is an unbelievable returner, so a high first-serve percentage was crucial today and I think I served pretty well.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\nInto the last four, the 11th seed Korda faces Marton Fucsovics, who beat Jaume Munar 7-5, 6-3 to claim his 100th tour-level hard-court win. The 33-year-old is the first Hungarian man in the Open Era to achieve that feat.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Winston-Salem Mpetshi Perricard saves four set points before storming into Winston-Salem SFs Korda beats Kecmanovic August 22, 2025&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":84912,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-84911","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\/84911","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=84911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84911\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}