Tennis David Goffin (ATP 24) has placed itself to the quarter-finals of the ATP tournament in Marseille. Our fellow countryman, who as the third seed was free in the first round, won in the eighth-finals in two sets by Benoit Paire (ATP 59): 6-2, and 6-3 after 1 hour and 5 minutes.
“He is big and strong, but not always as consistent,” said Goffin afterwards. “Therefore, it was up to me to get the whole game to remain focused. That has a victory been produced, despite the break that he in the beginning of the second set got.”
For the 28-year-old Also was the first victory since 17 January, when he was in the second round of the Australian Open the Romanian Marius Copil to the side,. Then he went against the Russian Daniil Medvedev and followed in Montpellier and Rotterdam immediately shut down. “Training was my level for the longer good, now I try to put in good matches. Then I try more and more to play to rely on.”
In the quarter-finals in Marseille awaits with sixth seed Gilles Simon (ATP 32) again a Frenchman. Who switched on his turn, the German Peter Gojowczyk (ATP 60) in three sets: 4-6, 6-4, 6-2. In the mutual duels between Goffin and Simon is the 2-2.
