{"id":787376,"date":"2026-07-27T13:43:36","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T13:43:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/787376\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T13:43:36","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T13:43:36","slug":"wta-atp-maiden-titles-for-tagger-and-van-assche-roland-garros-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/787376\/","title":{"rendered":"WTA\/ATP: Maiden titles for Tagger and Van Assche – Roland-Garros 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

Meanwhile in Estoril, 2021 Roland-Garros boys\u2019 singles champion<\/a> Van Assche also earned a top-50 debut by clinching the first title of his career with a 6-4, 4-6, 7-5 performance against Alexander Blockx.<\/p>\n

The 22-year-old Van Assche started his week in Portugal by grinding through a three-hour 26-minute opening round victory against local wildcard Frederico Ferreira Silva, which set the tone for a series of hard-fought wins for the Frenchman.<\/p>\n

Four of his five victories in Estoril went to three sets, including triumphs over Pablo Carreno Busta and tournament top seed Andrey Rublev.<\/p>\n

\u201cSuper, super happy, super proud, of course, of my week. It was a crazy week from the beginning to the end with so difficult matches. So, yeah, I’m so happy to win the title here. I was not expecting that, of course, one week ago. So, yeah, I’m just so relieved,\u201d Van Assche told Tennis TV after the final.<\/p>\n

Van Assche squandered a 5-3 lead in the decider to but held his nerve to close out the win and become the 10th first-time winner on the ATP Tour this season.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was tough conditions today, also with a lot of wind. And yeah, first final is never easy,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n

\u201cI had a little bit of difficulties at the beginning to serve. So, yeah, I just adapt on it. And yeah, I just found solutions and I tried to keep with this. And yeah, at the end, of course, there was a lot of tension, but I’m happy with how I managed the end of the match.\u201d<\/p>\n

Van Assche’s latest triumph is the continuation of a love affair with Portugal, having previously claimed his first Challenger title and first ATP match-win on Portuguese soil. <\/p>\n

\u201cYou should organise a Masters or a Slam,\u201d joked Van Assche during his victory speech. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Meanwhile in Estoril, 2021 Roland-Garros boys\u2019 singles champion Van Assche also earned a top-50 debut by clinching the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":787377,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":["post-787376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=787376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787376\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/787377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=787376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=787376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=787376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}