Berdych Stops Defending Champion Klizan In Rotterdam

Former champion Tomas Berdych is one match win away from reaching his third final at the ABN AMRO World Tennis Tournament in Rotterdam, where he has a 19-7 record.

Fourth seed Berdych, who beat Marin Cilic for the 2014 title, knocked out defending champion Martin Klizan 6-3, 6-3 on Friday at the Rotterdam Ahoy, venue of the ATP World Tour 500 tournament.

Berdych broke twice in the first set – in the fifth and ninth games, then for a 3-1 lead in the second set in an assured 59-minute performance. He now awaits the winner of top seed Cilic or sixth seed and 2011 runner-up Jo-Wilfried Tsonga.

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Third seed David Goffin takes on fifth seed Grigor Dimitrov, already a winner of two ATP World Tour titles in 2017, during the first match of Friday’s evening session. Qualifier Pierre-Hugues Herbert faces second seed Dominic Thiem in the final match of the day.

Dutchmen Advance To Doubles SFs
Wild cards Wesley Koolhof and Matwe Middelkoop delighted Dutch supporters by beating fourth seeds Lukasz Kubot and Marcelo Melo 7-6(2), 6-3 in 87 minutes for a place in the semi-finals against 2015 titlists Jean-Julien Rojer and Horia Tecau. The Dutchmen are 3-0 in ATP World Tour finals, including a title run at last month’s Apia International Sydney (d. Jamie Murray and Bruno Soares).