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Just as a briefer, for Men’s professional tennis, the 250-level series is the 5th highest tier of Men’s tennis after 500 Level, Masters 1000 level, the ATP year-end Finals, and of course the 4 Grand slams. This year the tournament will feature a whopping 16 players inside of the world’s top 50, this is something that is no small feat for a 250 level tournament. Only second to the ATP tournament run in my hometown of Atlanta, but I may be a bit biased there. I’ve worked a few tennis tournaments over the course of my years, and let me just start this by saying Tournament Director, and also Senior Associate Athletic Director for Wake Forest, Bill Oakes does an absolutely amazing job with this tournament, organizing and running it along with everything else pressing on his schedule. Every year players use this as a final tune up to try and get into form before the last major of the year, and this year they’ll try to in front of a crowd that will be energized as Wake Forest just took home not one, but TWO year end championships by winning both the team title as well as having Petros Chrysochos top Borna Gojo in the singles final. It will be great to play in the final against Jannik (Sinner).From August 18-25 the Wake Forest Tennis complex will host the final stop in the US Open series. Musetti, world number 30, who lifted his maiden tour-level trophy in Hamburg in July, will face the new Switzerland’s first racket Marc-Andrea Hüssler in the semi-finals.Īsked if he could go all the way in Sofia, Musetti expressed optimism: “Tomorrow will be difficult, I hope to win. The 20-year-old showcased a combination of quality and grit, rallying from a break down in the first set before firing an array of winners in the second set to seal his victory after 77 minutes. I played one of my best indoor hard court matches ever,” Musetti said in the on-court interview. I had to change something to be successful, and that’s exactly what I did. He was very aggressive and steady from the baseline. “Tough match, Struff served very well, especially in the first set. Next the 20-year-old Musetti dominated on the court and reached the semis. Musetti gradually raised his game and managed to rebreak soon.

The 32-year-old Struff started the match strongly and after an early break took a 3-0 game lead. Thus the Italian #NextGenATP star ended the German’s streak of four straight victories in the tournament. 4 seed Lorenzo Musetti reached the semi-finals too after winning in straight set to Jan-Lennard Struff (Germany) – 7:6 (3), 6:1 after 75 minutes. In 2019 Huesler was stopped in the second round after three wins in a row by the future champion Jannik Sinner. The 26-year-old won against French qualifier Geoffrey Blancaneaux (6:4, 6:4) and Spaniard Pablo Carreno Busta, the second seed (6:3, 3:6, 6:2) earlier in the tournament. Huesler, ranked No 95, will face the winner of the match between German qualifier Jan-Lennard Struff and Italian Lorenzo Musetti, the No 4 seed, next. Starting from the qualifiers, he had a great run in the USA but was stopped by Laslo Djere on his way to the final, Huesler advanced to the semi-finals of an ATP Tour event for the third time in his career and second time this year after playing in Top 4 at Winston-Salem Open in August. In the second set Majchrzak missed two consecutive match balls and gave chance to his Swiss opponent to make a great come-back and to win. The Swiss reached the last 4 of the Sofia Open by beating Pole Kamil Majchrzak 6:7 (4), 7:6 (6), 6:3 at the Arena Armeec Sofia on Friday. Marc-Andrea Huesler will play in his second ATP Tour semi-final for the year after reaching the Top Four at Sofia Open 2022.