Stefanos Tsitsipas breaks long fast
Stefanos Tsitsipas has not won an ATP tournament since April 2024
It's Stefanos Tsitsipas the winner of the Dubai 2025 ATP tournament: the Greek tennis player won his first tournament of the season, the twelfth in his career, beating Canadian Felix Auger-Aliassime 6-3, 6-3 in the final after an hour and twenty-nine minutes of play. Tsitsipas thus broke a long fast: his previous success dated back to the Monte Carlo Masters 1000, won in April 2024.
The current world No. 11, who is expected to return to the Top 10 on Monday, starts with a few risks, such as when he has to cancel two break points at 2-1 to Auger-Aliassime, but in the last three games of the first set he makes a break and puts himself in a very good position to reach the final success, despite the Canadian’s resistance.
The second fraction è even more balanced in the early stages: Tsitsipas avoids the opponent break at 1-1 and at 3-3, then sails confidently to success taking advantage of Auger-Aliassime’s drop in the final. The match then ended after two sets, with Tsitsipas winning the Emirati tournament for the first time in his career.
The Greek had played, in Dubai, two other finals, losing the first to Roger Federer in 2019, with the Swiss victorious with a double 6-4, and the second in the presence of Novak Djokovic, capable in turn of imposing himself 6-3, 6-4 in the final act of the 2020 edition of the tournament, played on cement.
Tsitsipas defeated in this edition of the Dubai tournament, in order, Lorenzo Sonego, Karen Khachanov, Matteo Berrettini and Tallon Griekspoor, before getting the better of Auger-Aliassime.
