ROTTERDAM, NETHERLANDS – Quebec’s Félix Auger-Aliassime rolled up his sleeves to beat Andrey Rublev in three sets 6-7 (5), 6-4 and 6-2 on Saturday, and thus got his pass to the final of Rotterdam. tournament.
Auger-Aliassime, third, was particularly effective on the net (86% success), surpassing the 7th player in the world in two hours and 21 minutes.
Auger-Aliassime had lost the first two matches of his career to Rublev, the 2nd sex in the tournament played in the Netherlands.
The 9th world racket will face in the final Stefanos Tsitsipas, 4th world racket. The duel will take place on Sunday around 9:30 a.m. Eastern time.
The pair have crossed swords seven times on the ATP Tour and Tsitsipas has won five times. Auger-Aliassime has not beaten the Greek since 2019.
Tsitsipas came from behind against a player who had qualified for the semifinals to reach his first final since the French Open last June.
The first seed ended the player’s streak from qualifier Jiri Lehecka in three sets 4-6, 6-4, 6-2.
It took Tsitsipas almost two hours to beat Lehecka, 137th in the world and Canadian scorer Denis Shapovalov.
The Greek admitted that he did not expect such an aggressive game from Lehecka.
Auger-Aliassime reached the semifinals of this ATP 500 tournament by knocking out Britain’s Cameron Norrie in the quarterfinals.
