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Saying to triumph! Felix scale to the semifinals in Dubai

The Canadian looks for his third 2025 title

February 27, 2025

Felix Auger-Aliassime continues to gain weight as one of the main animators of the 2025 season. The Canadian climbed on Tuesday to the semifinals of the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships, one of the most prestigious appointments in the initial section of the calendar, to continue placing his tennis at the top of the ATP Tour. The player with more games won this year (15) has a clear mission in the Emirate: sow authority before looking for the noble zone of the costumes.

No. 21 of the PIF ATP Rankings approved one of the most intense exams in the tournament, defeating the reborn Marin Cilic (6-4, 3-6, 6-2) to finish profile his candidacy for the title in the ATP 500 Asia. In an exchange of hard blows, with the ball speed as a constant protagonist, Felix kept calm until he caught one of his victories with the greatest prestige of the year. The North American, who stacked 13 ACES and barely delivered a service shift, exhibited his solidity before an obvious experience in Dubai.

AUGER-ALIASSIME continues to write a star 2025. The Canadian, who has secured his return to the world top 20 entering the semifinals, wants to maintain the impulse that has guided his blows in the first two months of the year. After lifting the crowns of Adelaida and Montpellier, leaving three points from the final in Doha last week, Felix retains an intact hunger in search of its largest 2025 trophy.

In a totally open tournament in the lower part of the painting, the Canadian will measure in the semifinals to the qualifier French Quentin Halys, who added his fifth victory of the week by beating 2-6, 6-3, 7-6 (5) to Italian Luca Nardi to reach the first ATP 500 semifinal of his career. AUGER-ALIASSIME DomINes by 2-0 The history Lexus ATP Head2head about the Gallic, which he won last week in Doha in an intense duel decided in Tiebreak of the third set.

Halys, who had never stepped on the penultimate round in a hard surface ATP tournament, will try to take advantage of this inertia in the middle of a week full of unprecedented personal milestones. After landing in the tournament with a 0-10 balance against Top 10 players, the Gallic added the most important victory of his career on Wednesday by beating No. 9 World Cup Andrey Rublev.

For its part, Cilic completed the best week of the season in Dubai. The Croatian, who tries to recover his best level after leaving two operations in the right knee behind, added his first 2025 wins to take impulse. The Balkan assured his entrance to the Top 150 of the PIF ATP Live Rankings, demonstrating an enormous illusion for returning to the elite at 36 years.

Did you know that …?
Felix Auger-Aliassime has achieved the biggest titles of his career in ATP 500 category events. The Canadian, who aspires to raise his fourth cup this week in a tournament of this caliber, proclaimed himself champion on the covers of the ABN Amro Open of Róterdam (2022) and the swiss Indoors Open of Basel (2022-23).