NARRATIVE – Crowned at home in ‘s-Hertogenbosch against Daniil Medvedev, the 205th in the world had never won a match on the main circuit before his feat.
Tim van Rijthoven is unlikely to win Wimbledon (June 27-July 10), but he will not go unnoticed in London. And if he does not benefit from an invitation from the organizers, it is with a brand new status that he will try to qualify in Roehampton. There’s still a week, so 205e world, it was still only one without-grade skimming the lower divisions. But that was before his dream week at home in ‘s-Hertogenbosch, where with his wild card (invitation), he offered himself the scalps of Taylor Fritz (14e world) to 2e round (6-7, 7-5, 6-4), Hugo Gaston in the quarter-finals (7-6, 6-4), Félix Auger-Aliassime (9e) in the half (6-3, 1-6, 7-6), then Daniil Medvedev in the final (2e world, and number 1 since Monday), (6-4, 6-1). “It’s a dream week. Thank you to my team for keeping their feet on the ground all week, it’s also my way of being. We just hit a tennis ball, it’s nothing extraordinary if we take a little backl.»
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