In the semifinals of the clay tournament in Portugal, Slovakian Andrei Martin will play against Tseng Chun-Hsin from Taiwan.
Tseng Chun-Hsin
The 20-year-old representative of Taiwan is very successful in Portugal and has even won a couple of good victories. In the 1/16 finals, Tseng easily beat the German Oscar Moraing - 6:4; 6:1. In the 1/8 finals, a victory over Nicolas-David Ionel from Romania followed - 6:3; 6:4. And yesterday in the quarterfinals, Chun-Hsin beat the Frenchman Calvin Emery in two sets – 6:4; 6:1.
Andrew Martin
The 32-year-old representative of Slovakia yesterday, in turn, quite expectedly beat Louis Wessels from Germany, but at the same time the match turned out to be difficult for Andrei. Martin won the first set easily with a score of 6:2 on games. But in the second game, Andrei somehow lost control of the game as a result, before the tie-break, Martin lost the set with a score of 5:7 in games. The Slovak just before the tie-break gave his serve. In the third set, Martin again played at full strength, at some point Andrei even led with a score of 4:1, at that time the Slovak had already made two breaks. However, it still didn't work out to finish the match easily, with the score 4:1, Martin lost his serve, but still then with difficulty, he was able to close the game in regular time with a score of 6:4.
Tseng Chun-Hsin and Andrey Martin played together in 2019 at a clay tournament in Prague. Then the representative of Taiwan won in three sets – 6:2; 6:7 (3:7); 6:2.
Forecast
In this match, a tennis player from Taiwan is considered a slight favorite due to a more confident game in Portugal, and the presence of a victory in a face-to-face confrontation adds status to Tseng. At the same time, Andrei Martin, at the age of 32, knows how to get out of difficult situations. Surely there will be a stubborn battle here if no one comes to the match with some kind of damage, and therefore we suggest putting more than 21.5 games on the total.