Auger-aliassime maintains the rhythm, sets the rendering of the Tsitsipas accounts in Dubai

It may not have been a simple navigation on Friday, but Felix Auger-Aliassime is in the final at the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships.

The 24-year-old continued his extraordinary beginning until 2025 by gathering the past qualifier Quentin Halys 5-7, 6-4, 6-3 to reach his final as Maiden ATP 500 on rigid outdoor courts. This year Auger-Aliassime, who won titles in Adelaide and Montpellier, produced a wisely measured response to the great Halys shots to advance in three finals in one season for the first time since 2022. The victory of two hours and 16 minutes Canadian was his fourth decision victory of the week.

“I don’t know how I crossed it today,” said Auger-Aliassime, who is up to n. 18 in the Live ATP PIF rankings. “I only played three setters this week, I both think a little tired. It was alone [about] Having a positive self -speech, I think everyone can relate. When we have a difficult day, just to make a speech and stay positive. I did it well and dug deeply, so I am really happy that it is repaid today. “

Having passed Halys in a decisive tie-break set in the first round in Doha last week, Auger-Aiassime knew that he should have dug once again against the Frenchman, who amazed the world n. 9 Andrey Rublev in his open for the greatest victory of his career. Yet the Canadian has kept calm in the crucial moments to record a sixteenth victory in 2025, most of the players on the tour.

“It’s never easy, coming from Doha you feel a little tired,” said Aumer-Issime when he was asked to start the season. “But it’s the same challenge for everyone, that’s what is interesting. His [about] Whoever will be acute when it is necessary and will win the important points. It is never easy, but I feel more and more confident I have solutions to get to games like this. “

With his race to the last four in Dubai, Halys is up to a new maximum career of n. 59 in the ATP PIF rankings. After improving 3-0 in his series Lexus Atp Head2head with Halys, Auger-Aiassime will have to face the fourth Stefanos Tsitsipas seed.

Manager himself to Friday’s semifinal, Halys held a 5-0 record in draws in the tournament, after playing one in each game, and it seemed that he would be forced to be forced to another against Auger-addicted. Yet the 24-year-old, who spared three set points in his service match, made his jokes at 5-6, 40/15. He struck three unformed errors, including a double defect, to give the opening set to the qualifier.

Auger-aliassime, chasing a final of the 18th ATP tour, entered the life of the fifth game of the second set, which proved to be a fundamental moment of the competition. The n. 1 Canadian climbed from one corner to another, digging Halys’ Smash with a winner who escaped his feet to set the breaking point, which converted and supported with an assertive finish on the set.

The n. 21 In the ATP PIF rankings, Auger-Aliassime led his momentum in a dominant final set, in which he raised his level behind the service. He saved both pause points he faced and won 93 % (14/15) of points behind his first delivery according to the infosys ATP statistics.

Saturday, AUGER-AIAXIMO will rekindle his rivalry with Tsitsipas, who has delivered a high quality display to see the Griekspoor 6-4, 6-4 heel and reaches his first field final since he won Los Cabos in 2023. Tsitsipa controlled the basic line and limited the ability of Griekspoor to attack the setting while reaching his tour for the tour for the tour Tour.

“I am extremely happy to have been able to avoid drama today and to play a good tennis from the beginning to the end,” said Tsitsipas, who improved 14-4 in Dubai. “I felt good. I was doing an excellent job from the basic line and I heard that my focus levels were at best so far, from any game I played this week. “

Tsitsipas entered the tournament with a 3-4 record in the season, but seems to approach its best with a series of impressive shows in Dubai. The sample of 11 times at the tour level and the former n. 3 World Cup used its reverse for the key effect during its semi -final of one hour of 23 minutes with Griekspoor, but was particularly powerful in the opening set, during which he published an reverse quality of 9.9, according to TDI Insights.

“I’m trying to get the best from every game,” Tsitsipas said about his season. “Each game has a new teaching, something new to offer me in terms of experience and knowledge, I am trying to immerse it and use that wisdom effectively.”

Not having competed in Dubai since 2020, Tsitsipas is in his third consecutive final at the ATP 500 event. The Greek was short to Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic in the 2019 and 2020 finals, respectively. If it is successful against Auger-Aiassime in the inclination of the title of Saturday, Tsitsipas will return to the top 10 of the ATP PIF charts for the first time since last June.

By improving 3-0 in his Lexus Atp Head2head series with Griekspoor, Tsitsipas has become the eighth active player to reach more than 30 ending finals.

Griekspoor, who saved four points of the game to stun the Top Daniil Medvedev seed for the greatest victory of his career on Thursday, chased his first ATP tour final since 2023. Yet the Dutchman took a medical time-out after the first set and in the end he was not able to produce an answer to the Gamma of Tsitsipas. Even the Greek was commanding behind its service and did not face the breaking point.

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