David Goffin opened his quest for his second Moselle Open title on Thursday. The second-seeded Belgian, who captured the 2014 trophy (d. Sousa), knocked out Spaniard Nicolas Almagro 3-6, 6-3, 6-4 for a place in the quarter-finals against Benoit Paire, who recorded the 150th match win of his career. Earlier in the day, Paire had cruised past Marcel Granollers of Spain 6-1, 6-2 in 55 minutes. Goffin’s hopes of winning a third ATP World Tour title, and boost his chances of rising up the Emirates ATP Race To London (currently No. 13) for one of the six remaining places at the Nitto ATP Finals, to be held at The O2 in London, were helped when Romania’s Marius Copil knocked out...
AUSTRALIA vs. BELGIUM Brussels, Belgium (Indoor Clay) World No. 12 David Goffin will try to push Belgium into its second Davis Cup final of the past three years when the Belgians take on Australia in the Davis Cup semi-finals, which start on Friday. Goffin and his countrymen will have their work cut out for them in Brussels. Australia is bringing World No. 20 Nick Kyrgios; John Millman, who's coming off a third-round run at the US Open and will be making his Davis Cup debut; Jordan Thompson, who upset American Jack Sock in New York; and John Peers, No. 2 in the Emirates ATP Doubles Rankings. In addition to Goffin, Belgium will be represented by No. 77 Steve Darcis, No....
Ninth seed David Goffin didn’t have things all his own way on Tuesday at the Coupe Rogers in a 4-6, 6-1, 6-4 victory over Japan’s Yuichi Sugita over one hour and 44 minutes. The Belgian, who is currently No. 13 in the Emirates ATP Rankings, led 4-2 in the first set but then won just five points in the next four games. Although he regrouped to win five straight games in the second set, the decider was a close affair – with Sugita ceding control to Goffin in the penultimate game. It was Goffin’s 20th match win on hard courts this season (34-14 overall), which includes two runner-up finishes at Sofia (l. to Dimitrov) and Rotterdam (l. to Tsonga). Goffin...
Top seed David Goffin fended off four match points – three consecutively – to claim his opener at the J. Safra Sarasin Swiss Open Gstaad, beating Moldovan Radu Albot 2-6, 7-6(7), 7-6(7) on Wednesday. Goffin, who reached the Gstaad final in 2015, was down 3/6 in the third-set tie-break but reeled off three consecutive points to get to 6/6. Albot then held another match point at 7/6, but Goffin won the final three points to reach the quarter-finals at the ATP World Tour 250 tournament in Switzerland. The Belgian also saved 14 of 17 break points. He will next meet Dutchman Robin Haase. The sixth-seeded Haase, who finished runner-up in 2013 and 2016, did not face a break point in...
