At 25, Tim van Rijthoven is not a partridge of the year.
But the Dutchman can boast of having won the grass-court tournament at 's-Hertogenbosch at home.
This regular on the secondary circuit swept in the final (6-4, 6-1) the Russian Daniil Medvedev, who will recover this Monday the first place in the world at the expense of Novak Djokovic.
Tim van Rijthoven's dream week.
Wild-card at s'Hertogenbosch, he won the title by beating Medvedev in the final (after Fritz and FAA).
He will go from 205th to 106th in the world and will be in the table at Wimbledon.
It won't be good to take it in the first round...
— Laurent Vergne (@LaurentVergne) June 12, 2022
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This is the first title for van Rijthoven (1.88 m, 88 kg), already beaten this week by Taylor Fritz (14th), Hugo Gaston (66th) then Félix Auger-Aliassime (9th).
His only appearance in a main circuit tournament was in 2016 in Winston-Salem, USA.
And again, he had obtained it as a "lucky loser", a player drafted after losing in qualifying.
A thwarted return to the throne
For Medvedev, who will not be able to participate in Wimbledon, forbidden this year to Russians and Belarusians, there was no worse way to "celebrate" the return to first place in the world, a throne already occupied for two weeks in March.
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