For the first time since 2016 four Belgians were in the Antwerp table, and without Goffin! Bergs, Blockx, Collignon and Bailly promise great succession in Belgian tennis, without forgetting Onclin who is returning from injury.
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By Yves Simon
DFrom Shanghai to Antwerp, Belgian men’s tennis suddenly finds itself in the spotlight. David Goffin lit the fire last week by reaching the quarter-finals of a Masters 1000, a performance he had been waiting for for more than two years. But it is not because the current Belgian n°1, moved up to 53e world place, is absent at the European Open that everything has died down, on the contrary. For the first time in nine editions (!), and therefore without the Liégeois, the European Open presented four players with the Belgian pennant in its main draw. With the return to form at the right time of Gilles-Arnaud Bailly (he was world No. 1 among juniors) who beat two former Top 40 (Herbert and Basilashvili), in qualifying, to challenge this Wednesday afternoon, with ambitions , the German Altmaier (84e).
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