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Van de Zandschulp to play for first ATP Tour title at Winston-Salem Open

Big-serving Dutchman Botic van de Zandschulp pulled double duty Friday at the Winston-Salem Open to put himself in position to claim his first ATP Tour title. He will meet Hungary’s Marton Fucsovics in Saturday’s final (5 p.m. EDT).

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 Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard 6-4, 7-5.

“It was a pretty quick two hours [between matches] but I think I managed well tonight,” said the 29-year-old, whose two previous tour-level finals came in Munich in 2022-23.

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’s second serve en route to claiming three service breaks.

“You have to play your own service games really well. If you get broken once, then most of the times, the set is over… Trying to return, you try to adjust your position a little bit, guessing where he's going to serve. Reacting is pretty tough, so you have to guess a little bit.”

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. “You get some confidence from that,” he said. “I was glad that at 5-5, I broke him again and served out pretty well at 6-5.”

Fucsovics, 33, advanced to his fifth tour-level final when Sebastian Korda 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.

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