{"id":317871,"date":"2025-10-20T06:07:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T06:07:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/317871\/"},"modified":"2025-10-20T06:07:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T06:07:12","slug":"david-goffin-and-marin-cilic-face-off-in-basel-qualifying-as-bizarre-situation-occurs-in-main-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/317871\/","title":{"rendered":"David Goffin and Marin Cilic face off in Basel qualifying as bizarre situation occurs in main tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The ATP Tour is brimming with talent, and on Sunday, a situation occurred that serves to highlight exactly how demanding things can be. <\/strong><\/p>\n

Jannik Sinner<\/a> and Carlos Alcaraz<\/a> are the two top players in the world right now, with the players competing for the Six Kings Slam<\/a> over the weekend. <\/p>\n

Sinner praised Alcaraz<\/a> after winning the $6 million prize money, but there are intriguing little subplots in world tennis, even further down the ranks. <\/p>\n

Earlier today, two former top 10 players competed against each other in a qualifying match ahead of the Swiss Indoors, which gets underway this week. <\/p>\n

\"MarinPhoto by David Jerkovic\/Pixsell\/MB Media\/Getty ImagesMarin Cilic beats David Goffin in qualifying for Swiss Indoors<\/p>\n

Before the match started today, both players knew that they\u2019d both be in the main draw as lucky losers, such was the number of players who withdrew from the event. <\/p>\n

Cilic won the US Open<\/a> in 2014 and has been as high as number three in the world rankings, whilst Goffin has been at a previous high of number seven. <\/p>\n

It was the Croatian player who came through the match to qualify of his own accord, winning 6-1, 7-6, with Cilic showing strong form in the second half of 2025. <\/p>\n

Remarkably, Cilic is down at 94 in the world at the moment and at 37-years-old he will be hoping to claim a few more big wins before his career draws to a close. <\/p>\n

Bizarre situation now takes place involving Cilic and Goffin<\/p>\n

With Goffin squeezing in through the back door as a lucky loser, he joins Cilic in the main draw to take his place at the Swiss Indoors. <\/p>\n

Remarkably, however, the two have now drawn each other in the last 32, facing each other on Tuesday at the tournament. <\/p>\n

Cilic and Goffin will need to play again, which pretty much makes the qualifying match completely pointless, to say the least. <\/p>\n

It\u2019s extremely rare for this to happen on the ATP<\/a> Tour, and now, both players will feel that they have a fantastic chance to progress to the last 16 in Basel. <\/p>\n

Both Cilic and Goffin will know that they have a golden chance this week and the match should be a very intriguing affair when they play on Tuesday. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Follow us on Google Discover The ATP Tour is brimming with talent, and on Sunday, a situation occurred…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":317872,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[1479,6991,62,1464,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-317871","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-atp","9":"tag-marin-cilic","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-tennis","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-unitedstates","14":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115405000070194948","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317871","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=317871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317871\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/317872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}