{"id":9268,"date":"2025-06-27T17:22:40","date_gmt":"2025-06-27T21:22:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/06\/27\/moute-tops-michelsen-reaches-its-first-atp-final-in-over-5-years\/"},"modified":"2025-06-27T17:22:40","modified_gmt":"2025-06-27T21:22:40","slug":"moute-tops-michelsen-reaches-its-first-atp-final-in-over-5-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/06\/27\/moute-tops-michelsen-reaches-its-first-atp-final-in-over-5-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Moute Tops Michelsen reaches its first ATP final in over 5 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Corentin Moutet booked his place in the Mallorca Open Finals with a 6-4, 7-6 (3) victory over third seed Alex Michelsen on Friday, reaching his first ATP showpiece match in over five years.<\/p>\n<p>The French will face Talong Leakspur in Saturday&#8217;s showdown after the Dutch garnered a 6-4, 6-4 victory over Canada&#8217;s second-seeded Felix Auger Ariasime.<\/p>\n<p>The only appearance in the previous ATP Finals in the 2020 ATP Finals broke twice in the opening set and remained a solid serve to ingest 6-4.<\/p>\n<p>Moute&#8217;s Courtcraft displaced the American enemies from balance throughout, with his left-handed angles and slices destroying Michelsen&#8217;s rhythm.<\/p>\n<p>The second set was a more severe event, with both players trading early breaks. Michaelsen created five breakpoints 4-3, but the 26-year-old Moutet saved them all in a brave hold.<\/p>\n<p>The Americans moved ahead 6-5, but Moutet responded with a composed service game to force a tiebreak.<\/p>\n<p>Moute went 4-3 on the breaker, never looking back, sealed the match on his first opportunity and is now bidding to win his Maiden ATP title.<\/p>\n<p>Fourth seed Griekspoor secured a break in each set and held the service firmly to reach the final.<\/p>\n<p>Auger-Aliasime made some errors, but most struggled to try Greikspoor&#8217;s serve and were lacking in key moments.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Corentin Moutet booked his place in the Mallorca Open Finals with a 6-4, 7-6 (3) victory over third seed Alex Michelsen on Friday, reaching his first ATP showpiece match in over five years. The French will face Talong Leakspur in Saturday&#8217;s showdown after the Dutch garnered a 6-4, 6-4 victory over Canada&#8217;s second-seeded Felix Auger [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9269,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[2423,63,2921,2920,110,24,1186,316],"class_list":{"0":"post-9268","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-atp","9":"tag-final","10":"tag-michelsen","11":"tag-moute","12":"tag-reaches","13":"tag-tennis","14":"tag-tops","15":"tag-years"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9268\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}