Benjamin Bonzi disgusts all his competitors on the Challenger circuit.
The Frenchman has just won his third trophy in a row on the circuit, at the Rennes Open.
In recent weeks he had also won in Cassis and Saint-Tropez.
The tricolor player lifted his sixth cup of the season with the manner and the mind.
In this final, against Mats Moraing, striker of Richard Gasquet, Bonzi is broken at 2-2 and must save five first set balls. The tricolor does not panic and goes up quietly facing the German of almost two meters. He finally sweeps his opponent in canon service, in two sets, and largely dominating the two tie-breaks played (7-6, 7-6). “I managed to get involved, to often return. It was necessary to have a big service today. I managed to pass a lot of firsts in the tie-breaks, ”said the Nîmes.
In the tournament only one player managed to take a set from Bonzi.
Another Frenchman, Arthur Rinderknech, semi-finalist in Brittany, and winner in 2020. During this season, Le Sudiste has been titled six times on the secondary circuit.
Only three other players can boast of displaying such stats in history.
Second best French in the Breed
With this victory, Benjamin Bonzi, climbs to 61st place in the ATP ranking.
He was 222nd last year.
The stop of the circuit does not seem to have turned him upside down, he is living a 2021 season of madness.
“At our level, it changes less than the floor above, observed the player last May.
We are less impacted by the absence of an audience, since we usually play in front of few people.
“Since then, the fifth best Frenchman has had to adapt to the cries and applause.
It is his 15th consecutive victory.
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And it's by looking at the rankings in the Race that these successes in the Challengers take on a little more meaning. He is 45th, which makes him the second Frenchman, just behind Ugo Humbert. No rest, he continues, as of this Monday, on the ATP 250 tournament of Nur-Sultan in Kazakhstan. Bonzi has yet to confirm on the main circuit. At the US Open, the Habs did not come out of qualifying. His last ATP victory was at Wimbledon in June against Argentina's Marco Trungelliti. Marin Cilic had ended his journey on the London turf in the second round (6-4, 3-6, 6-3, 7-6 [5]).