Tsitsipas Returns To Marseille Final

Stefanos Tsitsipas advanced to his second straight Open 13 Provence championship match on Saturday, beating Alexander Bublik 7-5, 6-3 in Marseille.

The second seed dropped only one point on serve in the second set (20/21) to complete his seventh straight victory at the ATP 250 event. Tsitsipas has won 14 consecutive sets in Marseille, dating back to a first-round loss against eventual quarter-finalist Nicolas Mahut in 2018.

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Tsitsipas is bidding to win back-to-back titles at an ATP Tour event for the first time. The 21-year-old beat Mikhail Kukushkin to lift his second tour-level trophy at this tournament last year.

Tsitsipas will face Rotterdam runner-up Felix Auger-Aliassime or two-time champion Gilles Simon for the title. The reigning Nitto ATP Finals champion owns one victory from three ATP Head2Head clashes against Auger-Aliassime and is yet to meet Simon.

Bublik was aiming to reach his third ATP Tour final. The Kazakh defeated two seeded players — Benoit Paire and Denis Shapovalov — in three-set matches en route to the semi-finals.

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