With Aliasim, Tsitsipas is in the final on Sunday at 4:30 p.m. at the Rotterdam Open

After a great match that lasted almost two and a half hours, Felix Ozer – Aliasim (No. 9) defeated Rublev (No. 7) by 2-1 sets and even a reversal (6-7, 6-4, 6-) . 2) and finds an opponent from Stefanos Tsitsipas (No. 4) in his final. Sunday (13.2 16:30 COSMOTESPORT 6live off Sportish) by doing Rotterdam Open.

The 23-year-old Greek will play in the 18th ATP Finals of his career and is looking to claim victory 8th ATP title of his career and 1st in ATP 500 series tournaments.

A big fall from Aliasim

Felix Ozer Aliasim pulled off a big upset, knocking out the defending champion in Rotterdam, Andrei Rublev, to qualify for Sunday’s grand final. pseudonym returned from a very difficult position in the 2nd set (6-7, 2-3 and 0-40 back) and qualified for the 9th ATP Finals of his career.

After 2 hours and 22 minutes of battle, Aliasim defeated Rublev 6-7(5), 6-4, 6-2 and is just one win away from the first ATP title of his career. So far he has lost all the finals he has played in.

This week, however, he seems determined to go one step further. In 2020 he was defeated by Gael Monfils in the final of the ABN Amro tournament, winning just six matches against the Frenchman. Now he returns to the finals to face board No. 1 Stefanos Tsitsipas in the 8th clash (5-2 H2H in favor of the Greek).

The world No. 9 tennis player, who is on his way to Rotterdam this year, won in order: Gerasimov, Murray, Nori and Rublev. In fact, it was his first win against the 25-year-old Russian, after two losses in the same number of meetings in the past.

It’s worth noting the fact that Aliasim didn’t even get a break from Roublef throughout the game, saving all seven of No. 2’s break point chances on the board. The three most important chances that Rublev missed came in the 6th game of the 2nd set.

There they led 0-40, but the 21-year-old Canadian took a great serve out of his sleeve and avoided the break to become boss moments later in the game and ‘break’ the Russian’s serve 4-4. .

With 71/99 points won behind his serve, Felix ended the match and walked in the 3rd set against Rublev, who was obviously affected by the loss of the 2nd set.

The 3/13 break points proved sufficient for the No. 3 on the board, who managed a break in set 2 and two breaks in set 3 to secure the big win, which also meant the dethroning of the Russian fighter in Rotterdam.