Roland Garros, Alexander Bublik sends clear message to Jannik Sinner and Andrey Rublev

From inconstant talent to slam-level certainty the step, for Alexander Bublik, was certainly not a short one, but in the 2025 edition of the Paris tournament the Kazakh decided to continue to surprise: in fact, beating Jack Draper, number 5 in the world, in four sets, the 27-year-old qualified for the quarterfinals of Roland Garros, thus already reaching his best result in one of the four most important tournaments on the professional circuit.
5-7, 6-3, 6-2, 6-4 was the score in Bublik’s favor, for a total of two hours and thirty-five minutes of play.
After a very balanced first set and a difficult start in the second, Bublik took the lead, conceding little or nothing to his highly-rated opponent who did not need to take the lead after the first set to put pressure on his opponent.
Bublik, now, awaits the last scheduled round of 16, the one between world No. 1 Jannik Sinner and Russia’s Andrey Rublev: not an easy match for the South Tyrolean, who has played nine matches against the Russian, winning six and losing three, with a record of two wins and one loss in the 2024 season, where Rublev was one of the few to beat Sinner in a triumphant year for the latter.
As far as Bublik is concerned, there are four previous meetings with Jannik Sinner, with three wins by the South Tyrolean and one by the Kazakh, dating back to the last precedent, the quarterfinals of the Halle tournament in 2023. Against Rublev, on the other hand, Bublik has played eight times at ATP Tour level, with five wins for the Russian and three for the Kazakh: the tally does not take into account a previous minor-level match in 2016, with Bublik beating Rublev in two sets in Moscow in a Future tournament.