Rune questioned chair umpire Mohamed Lahyani, who had not seen the screen malfunction, when the point ended. ![]() In that tense 11th game, Rune was distracted on one point by flickering, court-wide advertising boards behind his opponent which went black for a second as he prepared a shot and then lit up again. The third-seeded right-hander won the only break-point chance of the first set to lead 3-1 - also the first time unseeded Rune’s service was broken this week - and pressured him into another service break to take a 6-5 lead in the second. ![]() Rune is now 2-2 in finals though he will be ranked inside the top 20 for the first time on Monday.Īuger-Aliassime improved his career record in finals to 4-9 with all four titles won this year at indoor hard-court events in Europe. The combined age of Auger-Aliassime and the 19-year-old Rune added up to the same 41 years as Federer. Open champion, top-ranked Carlos Alcaraz, on Saturday in the semifinals. “I’m very far from that, but it’s so cool to have my name with all these great champions at this prestigious tournament,” said Auger-Aliassime, who beat the current U.S. The others are Novak Djokovic, Juan Martin del Potro - who both had to beat Federer in their finals - and Marin Cilic. Every winner of the Swiss Indoors from 2006 up to this edition also has a U.S.
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