
Andrey Rublev outlasts Tallon Griekspoor 6-4 5-7 7-6(6) in the 1st round in Beijing on Thursday after conquering a huge battle. Rublev will try to go further in the tournament when playing against Roman Safiullin in the 2nd round. The battle lasted 2 hours and 36 minutes. His best result in this tournament was reaching the quarter in 2017 and 2024. Here you can see his history at this event.
Andrey added to his prize money $ 27,910 after conquering this match. He has already won $ 59,805 after this win. If he wins the next match, the Russian will add $ 52,230 to his earnings to get in total $ 112,035 in total.
Highlights Andrey Rublev vs. Tallon Griekspoor China Open – Beijing
Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners
At the end of the match, Andrey scored 109 points vs. Griekspoor’s 107.
Rublev
Andrey served exceptionally well to win 81% of the points (59/73) behind his first serve, and he won 53% points (21/40) on his second serve. The Russian blasted 19 aces and he committed 2 double faults. Rublev won this match even if he had some problems converting his break points as he converted only 17% (1/6) of the procured opportunities.
Griekspoor
On the other side, Tallon was struggling to find the solution in converting his break points (only 20% – 1/5). That was one of the key issues for his loss.
After this encounter, the head to head between Rublev and Griekspoor is 4-1 for Andrey.
Draw and next match H2H: Andrey Rublev vs. Roman Safiullin – stats
Rublev will take on Safiullin in the 2nd round.
This will be the 2nd time that Andrey Rublev and Roman Safiullin clash against each other. The head to head is 1-0 for Safiullin (see full H2H stats), but they have never competed against each other on hard.
The last time that they played each other, Safiullin won 6-4 6-76 3-6 6-3 7-612 in the 1st round in London back in June 2026.
Live score progression and stats
Rublev was quite dominant at the beginning of the set to break Tallon Griekspoor in the 1st game (1-0). That was sufficient for Andrey to win the set (6-4) since there were no other breaks.
Andrey wasted a good opportunity to break Griekspoor in the 9th game when he had 3 consecutive chances (0-40).
Andrey converted 16% of his break points (1/6). He had 6 break points opportunities in the 1st (0-0 30-40, 40-A and 40-A) and the 9th game (5-3 0-40, 15-40 and 30-40). On the other side, the Dutch was unable to convert any of his 2 break points. He had 2 break points opportunities in the 8th game (3-4 40-A and 40-A).
They played 66 points. The Russian conquered the set after winning 6 points more than the Dutch (36-30). Rublev dropped 9 points on serve (23-9). on the other side of the net, Griekspoor conceded 13 points on serve (21-13).
There was not much difference between the 2 players in this set with the exception of 1 break that Griekspoor conquered in the 12th game (7-5).
Griekspoor was on the money in converting all his break points in the 4th (2-1 30-40) and the 12th game (6-5 40-A). On the other side, the Russian wasn’t able to convert 1 break point in the 1st game (0-0 30-40).
They contested 69 points. Tallon was the one to win the set after conquering 9 points more than Andrey (39-30). Griekspoor was extremely solid on serve to drop just 4 points (25-4). on the other side of the court, Andrey conceded 14 points on serve (26-14).
Both players were too good on serve during this set and the fight went to the breaker. Eventually, the Russian won a thrilling breaker 8-6 after a huge fight with 14 points played.
Tiebreak
Rublev won 3 minibreaks in the 8th (5-3), 9th (6-3) and 14th (8-6) point. On the other side, Griekspoor won a minibreak in the 12th (6-6) point.
This was the tiebreak sequence: 0-1, 1-1, 2-1, 2-2, 2-3, 3-3, 4-3, 5-3, 6-3, 6-5, 6-6, 7-6, 8-6
They played 82 points. Rublev won 4 points more than Tallon (43-39). Andrey conceded 10 points on serve (30-10). Regarding the other side of the net, Griekspoor conceded 13 points on serve (29-13).
Tennis Scores in Beijing
- Francisco CerundoloCerundolo – Botic Van De ZandschulpVan De Zandschulp (5-7 6-4 6-3)
- Roman SafiullinSafiullin – Flavio CobolliCobolli (6-3 6-2)
- Quentin HalysHalys – Ignacio BuseBuse (6-1 7-63)
- Juncheng ShangShang – Sebastian BaezBaez (5-7 6-3 7-5)
- Hubert HurkaczHurkacz – Learner TienTien (5-7 6-3 6-4)
- Jakub MensikMensik – Alexander BublikBublik (6-4 7-65)
- Alex De MinaurDe Minaur – Mariano NavoneNavone (7-64 6-2)
- Alexander ZverevZverev – Cameron NorrieNorrie (7-61 6-4)
- Andrey RublevRublev – Tallon GriekspoorGriekspoor (6-4 5-7 7-66)
- Bu YunchaoketeYunchaokete – Juan Manuel CerundoloManuel Cerundolo (6-2 5-7 6-4)
- Karen KhachanovKhachanov – Felix Auger-AliassimeAuger-Aliassime (6-3 6-3)
- Arthur GeaGea – Zhizhen ZhangZhang (6-4 6-3)
- Alex MolcanMolcan – Tomas MachacMachac (6-3 6-2)
- Novak DjokovicDjokovic – Nuno BorgesBorges (6-3 7-62)
- Jan-Lennard StruffStruff – Thiago Agustin TiranteAgustin Tirante (6-1 6-4)
Upcoming matches
- Daniil MedvedevMedvedev – Pablo Carreno-BustaCarreno-Busta (5-2) – H2H details and stats
- Alexander ZverevZverev – (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Hubert HurkaczHurkacz – (0-0) – H2H details and stats
- Andrey RublevRublev – Roman SafiullinSafiullin (0-1) – H2H details and stats
- Alex MolcanMolcan – Karen KhachanovKhachanov (1-0) – H2H details and stats
- Alex De MinaurDe Minaur – Quentin HalysHalys (1-2) – H2H details and stats
- Francisco CerundoloCerundolo – (2-0) – H2H details and stats
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