Canadian Olympic bronze medalist Felix Auger-Aliassime has reached the final of the 2025 Dubai Tennis Championship. He has the chance of winning his third ATP event of the season after winning the Adelaide International in January and the Open Occitanie in Montpellier, France in February.
In Dubai over the last week, Auger-Aliassime defeated Alexander Bublik of Kazakhstan 7-6, 6-7, 6-3 in the first round, Nuno Borges of Portugal 4-6, 6-3, 7-5 in the second round, 2014 United States Open champion Marin Cilic of Croatia 6-4, 3-6, 6-2 in the quarterfinals, and Quentin Halys of France 5-7, 6-4, 6-3 in the semifinals. It is interesting that Auger-Aliassime has been taken to three sets in all four of his matches, and has been the favourite in all matches despite being unseeded. All of his opponents have been unseeded too.
In the final, Auger-Aliassime will face the tournament’s fourth seed and two-time grand slam finalist Stefanos Tsitsipas of Greece. Tsitsipas reached the final of the French Open in 2021, and the Australian Open in 2023. Auger-Aliassime’s best grand slam result was a semifinal in the United States Open in 2021. He won his Olympic bronze medal with Gabriela Dabrowski of Ottawa. Ontario in mixed doubles at the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris.
Overall, Auger-Aliassime is 3-6 all-time against Tsitsipas. However, one of the wins was in the final of Rotterdam in 2022, which Auger-Aliassime won 6-4, 6-2.
