Mattia Bellucci unstoppable: Tsitsipas also beaten. He is in the semifinals in Rotterdam

Rotterdam, 7 February 2025 – Mattia Bellucci is not satisfied. After beating former world number one Daniil Medvedev, the 23-year-old outsider also won on Stephen Tsitsipas a Rotterdam, earning his first semifinal in a tournament ATP 500. 

Two sets were enough for the talent from Busto Arsizio who closed the match with a clear 6-4 Years, 6-2 Years. A test of maturity against a veteran like Tsitsipas, number 12 in the world. Tomorrow he will play for access to the final against De Minaur who in the meantime has defeated Altmeier. In the meantime he makes a leap in the standings Atp, entering the top 70 tennis players in the ranking. 

A one-sided match today, dominated from start to finish without hesitation, with the Italian good at waiting for the Greek tennis player's misstep in the ninth game of the first set, managing to gain the decisive break that led him to win the set. In the second set then the tennis player from Busto Arsizio took off, leaving only crumbs to his rival and taking home the set and match with a clear 6-2. Waiting for him in his first historic semi-final of an ATP tournament will be the number three seed Alex De Minaur, considered one of the strongest players on the circuit on this surface, although Bellucci is no longer satisfied and will try to achieve another feat after having managed to position himself in the top one hundred last November and after having obtained his best position in the ranking only last week, becoming the ninety-second tennis player in the world. It should also be noted that the victories obtained in Rotterdam will make the Italian tennis player leap further forward in the ATP rankings, which starting next week will find itself among the top seventy, obtaining yet another record that will be added to those obtained by the entire Italian tennis movement in recent years, with the Lombard tennis player who made his debut on the circuit seven years ago, obtaining the first tournament at Challenger level in 2021 in Sharm el-Sheick and then making his debut for the first time at Slam level at the Australian Open 2023. The Lombard talent is emerging peremptorily. Last year, Jannik Sinner's peer lost in the fifth set to Tiafoe at Roland Garros, and again in the fifth set to Shelton at Wimbledon. Italian tennis can continue to dream, and not only with the number one.