A sensation at the ATP tournament in the Netherlands! The player of the third hundred defeated the future world number one

So far, he has played only one first round at an ATP tournament in 2016 and has never been able to win a title at a challenger level tournament. But now, the 205th player in the world, Dutchman Tim Van Rijthoven, has made it through to the final of a tournament in his home country and moreover managed to beat the future number one, Russian Daniil Medvedev, without losing a set.

He’s a tennis prodigy. Twenty-five-year-old Tim Van Rijthoven is not having a very good season. In recent months, he has not even made it past the first round of challenger level tournaments and in May he lost to the world’s nearly 300th ranked player, Finland’s Otto Virtanen, after switching to grass.

But then he got a wild card at Hertogenbosch and went on an incredible run. First he took out Frenchman Matthew Ebden in the first round, then he beat world No. 14 Taylor Fritz, Hugo Gaston and world No. 9 Felix Auger-Aliassime. Nobody expected such a performance from this Dutchman.

Daniil Medvedev, who once again leapfrogged Novak Djokovic as world number one, was the bigger favourite in the final. But to everyone’s surprise, the home player dominated the match again. From the third game of the first set, Medvedev did not earn a single break point.

The first set was a bit more even and ended with Rijthoven winning 6:4. In the second set, however, the Dutchman completely demolished his opponent and almost got a canard. The second set ended with Van Rijthoven winning 6:1 and the fans gave a standing ovation.

If the Dutchman had earned around 200,000 euros in tournaments so far, he now earned 98,580 euros for this single triumph, plus 250 ranking points. Van Rijthoven moved up 99 places to 106th in the world and improved his personal best (175th)

Source: ATP