Geeks announce the sound in Gstaad

The Geeks scored J. Safra Sarasin's Swiss Open Gstaad. Matteo Berrettini (ATP 86), Jurgen Zopp (ATP 107) and Laslo Djere (ATP 101) are three in the semifinals

At the Gstaad tennis tournament, the winners of the underdogs have a long tradition. Also on Marcel Granollers, Thomaz Bellucci and Victor Hanescu had in the years 2011, 2009 and 2008 before the beginning of the tournament. Bellucci even won the Swiss Open nine years ago in the qualifier.

From the current outsider trio, the Italian Matteo Berrettini promises the best for the future. Roman, 22, reached the quarterfinals of an ATP tournament for the first time in Saanenland and continued his run with a 6: 4, 6: 3 win over Spanishman Feliciano Lopez (winner of the Swiss Open 2016). But although Berrettini before Gstaad has never won two games in a row at this level, the Italian knows how to win tennis matches. In 2017, he won Challenger Events 53 singles. And this season, he has won several times in the self-confidence of the Challenger tournaments (victory of the tournament in Bergamo, finalist at Irving).

Berrettini's 64-minute victory over Feliciano Lopez is certainly not a surprise. Lopez returns to the worst season of clay in 20 years. Only 20 years ago, as a 16-year-old junior, he also won three singles in July. Feliciano Lopez had come with a 3: 5 balance on the sand in Gstaad. The victories won over Spaniard Oriol Roca Batalla and Argentine Federico Delbonis should have helped Lopez's self-confidence. Nevertheless, he also lost the fifth quarterfinal this season after defeats at Queen's London, Stuttgart (against Nick Kyrgios), Acapulco (against Jared Donaldson) and Sydney (against Alex de Minaur).

The only set is the Spanish Roberto Bautista Agut (ATP 17) against the underdogs. Bautista Agut defeated Japan's Daniel Taro 7: 5, 6: 1 in the quarter-finals and, as in the previous year, reached the semi-finals and meet Laslo Djere's Serbs.

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