Felix Auger Aliassime overcomes Roman Safiullin 7-6(4) 7-6(5) in the semifinal in Marseille on Saturday. Auger-Aliassime will square off with Andrey Rublev in the final. The battle lasted 2 hours and 27 minutes. This run will match his best achievement in this tournament. Here you can see his history at this event.

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The Canadian added to his prize money € 13,820 after winning this match. He has won already € 40,930 after this win. If he wins the next match, Felix will add € 17,540 to his earnings to get in total € 58,470 in total.

Highlights Felix Auger Aliassime vs. Roman Safiullin Open 13 Provence – Marseille

Stats: aces, double faults, breaks, winners

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At the end of the match, Auger-Aliassime scored 98 points vs. Roman’s 86.

Auger-Aliassime

Felix served very well to win 79% of the points (48/61) behind his first serve. Anyhow he won only 46% points (18/39) on his second serve. Felix struck 15 aces and he committed 6 double faults. The Canadian won this match even if he had a tough time converting his break points after he converted only 33% (2/6) of the procured opportunities.

Safiullin

On the other side, Safiullin had a tough time converting his break points (only 25% – 2/8). That was one of the key issues for his loss.

After this match, the head to head between Auger-Aliassime and Safiullin is 1-0 for Felix.

Draw and next match H2H: Felix Auger Aliassime vs. Andrey Rublev – stats

Auger-Aliassime will come up against Rublev in the final.

This will be the 4th time that Felix Auger Aliassime and Andrey Rublev play each other. The head to head is 2-1

for Rublev (see full H2H stats), but Auger-Aliassime leads 1-0 on I.hard.

The last time that they played, Auger-Aliassime won 6-75 6-4 6-2 in the semifinal in Rotterdam back in February 2022.

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Auger-Aliassime was in a great position at the beginning of the set to break Roman Safiullin in the 1st game (1-0). Nonetheless, there was more work to do for the Canadian to win the set because Safiullin managed to break back in the 4th (2-2) and in the 6th (4-2) game. Auger-Aliassime kept his cool before winning the set at the breaker at 4.

Notwithstanding also the Russian won 4 consecutive games from 0-2 to 4-2

Tiebreak

The Canadian won 4 minibreaks in the 4th (1-3), 8th (4-4), 9th (5-4) and 11th (7-4) point. On the other side, Safiullin won 2 minibreaks in the 2nd (2-0) and 3rd (3-0) point.

This was the tiebreak sequence: 0-1

, 0-2, 0-3, 1-3, 1-4, 2-4, 3-4, 4-4, 5-4, 6-4, 7-4

The Canadian was spot on in converting all his break points in the 1st (0-0 15-40) and the 7th game (2-4 0-40). On the other side, Roman converted 25% of his break points (2/8). He had his opportunities in the 4th (1-2 40-A and 40-A) and the 6th game (3-2 0-40, 15-40, 30-40, 40-A, 40-A and 40-A).

They played 95 points. Felix conquered the set after winning 7 points more than the Russian (51-44). The Canadian lost 25 points on serve (36-25). On the losing side, Safiullin conceded 15 points on serve (19-15).

The set went straight to the tiebreak as there were no breaks. Eventually, Felix won the breaker at 7-5.

Tiebreak

Felix won 3 minibreaks in the 2nd (2-0), 11th (6-5) and 12th (7-5) point. On the other side, Safiullin won a minibreak in the 8th (4-4) point.

This was the tiebreak sequence: 1-0, 2-0, 2-1, 3-1, 4-1, 4-2, 4-3, 4-4, 5-4, 5-5, 6-5, 7-5

Felix was unable to convert any of the 4 conquered break points. He had 4 break points opportunities in the 8th game (4-3 15-40, 30-40, 40-A and 40-A). On the other side, the Canadian didn’t concede a single break point during this set.

They played 89 points. The Canadian was the winner of the set after clinching 5 points more than the Russian (47-42). Felix conceded 9 points on serve (29-9). On the other side, the Russian conceded 18 points on serve (33-18).

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