ATP Montpellier: semi-finals! Peter Gojowczyk beats Dennis Novak
Peter Gojowczyk has reached the semi-finals at the ATP 250 tournament in Montpellier, France.
by Florian Goosmann
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Feb 26, 2021, 06:08 pm
Gojowczyk beat Austria's Dennis Novak 6: 4, 6: 1 in the quarter-finals, playing for a place in the final on Saturday.
Gojowczyk was on the break from the middle of the first round in two service games by Novak, and it was finally enough to make it 5: 4. Seven set balls were still necessary in the end. The world number 144 succeeded in round two. then the early double break and the quick 4-0 lead.
His opponent on Saturday: either the top seeded Roberto Bautista Agut or local hero Ugo Humbert.
David Goffin and Egor Gerasimov will meet in the second semi-final.
France is still a good place for "Gojo": In 2017 he won his first and so far only ATP tournament in Metz, at that time even as a qualifier. And in Nancy he first attracted a lot of attention in 2014 when he won his Davis Cup debut against Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, then number twelve in the world.