{"id":88776,"date":"2025-08-15T10:11:16","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T14:11:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/?p=88776"},"modified":"2025-08-15T10:11:16","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T14:11:16","slug":"terence-atmane-historic-semifinal-cincinnati","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/2025\/08\/15\/terence-atmane-historic-semifinal-cincinnati\/","title":{"rendered":"Terence Atmane Gets Back-to-Back Top 10 Wins to Reach Historic Semifinal in Cincinnati"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Terence Atmane\u2019s career has undergone a dramatic change in just three weeks. On July 26, he lost to Argentina\u2019s Facundo Bagnis (World No. 689) in the Toronto qualifying rounds. Twenty days later, he is in the semifinals of the <a href=\"https:\/\/cincinnatiopen.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cincinnati Open<\/a> after defeating two Top 10 players in a row.<\/p>\n<p>His success is due not only to the exceptional level of tennis he has shown since the start of the tournament, but also to the new Masters 1000 format. Under the old system, Atmane wouldn\u2019t even have made the qualifying cut. Instead, he won two rounds in qualifying, entered the main draw, and went on to win five straight matches.<\/p>\n<h2>A Check That Will Change His Life<\/h2>\n<p>Even if he falls in the semifinal, Atmane has already ensured <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/rankings\/singles\/live\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">he will leave Cincinnati with 413 additional ranking points<\/a>&#8211;almost half of his current total of 873. And the financial reward is just as remarkable. Before this tournament, his 2025 earnings stood at $310,376. The semifinal alone will add $332,160, meaning he has earned more in a week and a half by winning seven matches than he did in the first seven months of the season, when he won 24 matches.<\/p>\n<p>Reflecting on this in his post-match interview, Atmane admitted: \u201cIt\u2019s insane. I can\u2019t believe it&#8230; it\u2019s also a lot of money for me.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">All the feels \ud83e\udd79<\/p>\n<p>An emotional win for Atmane. <a  href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ysjpiLBaqF\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/ysjpiLBaqF<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Cincinnati Open (@CincyTennis) <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CincyTennis\/status\/1956185420183589043?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">August 15, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3>Defeating Two Top 10 Players in a Row<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/2025\/08\/12\/atmanes-rise-continues-in-cincinnati\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">We had already written about Atmane when he reached the fourth round<\/a>, having upset Flavio Cobolli and Jo\u00e3o Fonseca. Few expected him to still be competing on Saturday, but he continued his run with victories over World No. 4 Taylor Fritz and World No. 9 Holger Rune.<\/p>\n<p>With these wins, Atmane became the seventh lowest-ranked player ever to reach an ATP Masters 1000 semifinal&#8211;an achievement he himself didn\u2019t foresee. After defeating Rune, he said: \u201cI\u2019m very emotional about it. I couldn\u2019t sleep last night after the Taylor win, but I was trying to enjoy it as much as I can because I had nothing to lose.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>Facing the World No. 1<\/h3>\n<p>Next up for Atmane is Jannik Sinner, the current World No. 1. While his dream run may be nearing its end, betting against him this week feels risky. Atmane himself remains confident: \u201cSinner? A person with two arms and two legs like me. I\u2019m going to see what the very, very high level is like. I can\u2019t wait, I\u2019m going to attack it like the other matches. Since the start of the tournament, I\u2019ve had nothing to lose\u2014that won\u2019t change,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lequipe.fr\/Tennis\/Actualites\/Terence-atmane-j-ai-hate-de-jouer-la-demi-finale\/1585230\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">he told L\u2019\u00c9quipe<\/a> (translation by Google).<\/p>\n<p><a  id=\"lR9TQl3iRg1OiZmrKOpOpA\" class=\"gie-single\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/2230197476\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color:#a7a7a7;text-decoration:none;font-weight:normal !important;border:none;display:inline-block;\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'lR9TQl3iRg1OiZmrKOpOpA',sig:'AQtcME49eoVsZPjOU3m4mbRD5qRwgwm6wYGazACzxWg=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'2230197476',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The two have never faced each other before, but their paths may cross again. The Cincinnati semifinal guarantees Atmane a spot inside the Top 70, ensuring direct entry into all four Grand Slam main draws and most Masters 1000 events. At just 23 years old, it\u2019s safe to say this is only the beginning.<\/p>\n<p><em>Main Photo Credit: Aaron Doster-Imagn Images<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Terence Atmane\u2019s career has undergone a dramatic change in just three weeks. On July 26, he lost to Argentina\u2019s Facundo Bagnis (World No. 689) in the Toronto qualifying rounds. Twenty days later, he is in the semifinals of the Cincinnati Open after defeating two Top 10 players in a row. His success is due not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5454,"featured_media":88785,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2,9],"tags":[3636,15670,7605,5862,18636,347,41540],"class_list":["post-88776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-atp","category-featured","category-news","tag-facundo-bagnis","tag-flavio-cobolli","tag-holger-rune","tag-jannik-sinner","tag-joao-fonseca","tag-taylor-fritz","tag-terence-atmane"],"modified_by":"Yesh Ginsburg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5454"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88776"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88786,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88776\/revisions\/88786"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88785"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}