Before Wimbledon 2021, Halle Open is the most interested tournament. The reason comes from the presence of big names like Roger Federer, Daniil Medvedev or Alexander Zverev. However, in German soil, suddenly happened when these 3 trio were eliminated from the first two rounds.
At this time, the only remaining seed of the tournament is Andrey Rubleev. When the names still do not really stand out, the championship of the world ranked 7th in the world is huge. He also did not help the NHM's expectations when he passed the quarterfinals to participate in this year's Halle Open semi -finals.
In the quarterfinals, RubleV's opponent is Philipp Kohlschreiber – the player ranked 128th in the ATP rankings. At the age of 37, Kohlschreiber no longer retains the top form. Therefore, RubleV did not have much difficulty to win the ticket to go on.
In set 1, the match took place extremely dramatic. On Arena, two players chased the score extremely suffocating. Notably, throughout the set, both RubleV and Kohlschreiber did not win any break. At game 12, the score is balanced 6-6, bringing set 1 into a series of tie-break brain balance. At this time, RubleV played better and easily won 7-4.
Set Set 2, Kohlschreiber showed signs of exhaustion and surrender. Meanwhile, Rubleev showed great determination. He quickly won the break in game 1 and then played over the opponent throughout the set. At game 7, the Russian player won the break once more and then closed set 2 with an overwhelming victory of 6-2.
In the end, Rubleev defeated the old Kohlschreiber 2-0 and officially won tickets to the Halle Open semi-finals. Here, the Russian star will face Nikoloz Basilashvili – the player ranked 30th in the ATP rankings.
