{"id":168127,"date":"2025-08-23T03:10:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-23T03:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/168127\/"},"modified":"2025-08-23T03:10:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-23T03:10:08","slug":"van-de-zandschulp-to-play-for-first-atp-tour-title-at-winston-salem-open-atp-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/168127\/","title":{"rendered":"Van de Zandschulp to play for first ATP Tour title at Winston-Salem Open | ATP Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        Winston-Salem<br \/>\n    Van de Zandschulp to play for first ATP Tour title at Winston-Salem Open<\/p>\n<p>Dutchman to face Hungarian Marton Fucsovics in Saturday&#8217;s final<\/p>\n<p>August 23, 2025<\/p>\n<p>2025 Jared Wickerham\/Wick Photography for Winston-Salem Open<\/p>\n<p>        Botic Van de Zandschulp is into his third tour-level final at the Winston-Salem Open.<br \/>\n        By ATP Staff<\/p>\n<p>Big-serving Dutchman <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/players\/botic-van-de-zandschulp\/v812\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Botic van de Zandschulp<\/a> pulled double duty Friday at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/tournaments\/winston-salem\/6242\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Winston-Salem Open<\/a> to put himself in position to claim his first ATP Tour title. He will meet Hungary\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/players\/marton-fucsovics\/f724\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Marton Fucsovics<\/a> in Saturday\u2019s final (5 p.m. EDT).<\/p>\n<p>After completing a 6-3, 5-7, 6-3 win over Buyunchaokete in a match held over from Thursday due to rain, the World No. 92 backed up to take down French powerhouse <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/players\/giovanni-mpetshi-perricard\/m0gz\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard<\/a> 6-4, 7-5.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/apps?utm_source=atp&amp;utm_medium=article&amp;utm_campaign=app_banner\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/news\/-\/media\/&#10;9333ed00493246e6a2ad692fa18710b7.ashx\" alt=\"The Official App Of Tennis | Download ATP WTA Live App\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was a pretty quick two hours [between matches] but I think I managed well tonight,\u201d said the 29-year-old, whose two previous tour-level finals came in Munich in 2022-23.<\/p>\n<p>A Winston-Salem semi-finalist in 2022, Van de Zandschulp held Mpetshi Perricard to just seven aces and won 12 of 19 points on the 22-year-old\u2019s second serve en route to claiming three service breaks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou have to play your own service games really well. If you get broken once, then most of the times, the set is over\u2026 Trying to return, you try to adjust your position a little bit, guessing where he&#8217;s going to serve. Reacting is pretty tough, so you have to guess a little bit.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The match appeared to be headed to a third set before Van de Zandschulp broke when trailing 3-5 in the second with some brave net play. \u201cYou get some confidence from that,\u201d he said. \u201cI was glad that at 5-5, I broke him again and served out pretty well at 6-5.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fucsovics, 33, advanced to his fifth tour-level final when <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/players\/sebastian-korda\/k0ah\/overview\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sebastian Korda<\/a> withdrew from their scheduled semi-final. The World No. 94 won the Bucharest title last year, six years after his only other title in Geneva in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Winston-Salem Van de Zandschulp to play for first ATP Tour title at Winston-Salem Open Dutchman to face Hungarian&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":168128,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[62,1464,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-168127","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-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115075889502554741","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168127\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}