John Isner<\/a> shared his thoughts on the Kazakh number one.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\u201cHe used to always say how much he dislikes clay,\u201d said Isner.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe has completely disproven his own theory, making the quarters of the French Open and now easily winning this tournament in Gstaad.\u201d<\/p>\n
TournamentTierResultMatch winsSwiss OpenATP 250Champion4French OpenGrand SlamQuarterfinalist4Hamburg OpenATP 500First round0Challenger TurinChallenger 175Champion5Italian OpenMasters 1000Second round1Madrid OpenMasters 1000Fourth round3Munich OpenATP 250First round0 (2 qualifying wins)Monte-Carlo MastersMasters 1000Qualifying0Alexander Bublik at clay tournaments in 2025<\/p>\n
Isner proceeded to comment on Bublik\u2019s chances at his next ATP tournament in Kitzbuhel.<\/p>\n
\u201cI see he is also the number one seed in Kitzbuhel,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Top eight seeds in Kitzbuhel 20251. Alexander Bublik2. Sebastian Baez3. Pedro Martinez4. Roberto Bautista Agut5. Tomas Martin Etcheverry6. Arthur Rinderknech7. Francisco Comesana8. Marton Fucsovics<\/p>\n
\u201cThese are high-altitude, clay-court events, and I can see how he can be very good at altitude tennis.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou\u2019re in the mountains. Beautiful setting. I think he now knows that he is really good on clay. Maybe not his best surface, probably grass still is, but he can play on all surfaces.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Photo by FABRICE COFFRINI\/AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n
With that in mind, the American predicted where Bublik will be ranked for the next three years on the ATP Tour.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think he should be a sure-fire top 20 guy for the next three years, in my opinion,\u201d said Isner.<\/p>\n
Isner has faith in Bublik becoming a top-20 player again, but where is the 28-year-old currently ranked?<\/p>\n
How far away is Alexander Bublik from the top 20?<\/p>\n
Once ranked 17th in the world, Bublik fell well outside the top 50 earlier this year, before he rediscovered his best tennis in the French capital.<\/p>\n
Following his win in Gstaad, Bublik returned to the top 30, edging ever closer to a place in the top 20.<\/p>\n
RankNameAgePointsPoints gap to 20th20thGrigor Dimitrov342,155\u201321stArthur Fils212,1302522ndTomas Machac242,1104523rdUgo Humbert272,0956024thAlexei Popyrin252,05010525thJiri Lehecka232,01514026thAlejandro Davidovich Fokina261,94521027thFelix Auger-Aliassime241,86529028thDenis Shapovalov261,83631929thStefanos Tsitsipas261,82533030thAlexander Bublik281,825330Snapshot of the ATP Rankings<\/p>\n
Bublik currently trails world number 20 Grigor Dimitrov<\/a> by 330 points, but could jump up a few places in the rankings if he were to win this week\u2019s Kitzbuhel Open.<\/p>\nTaking home all 250 points could see Bublik rise to as high as 24th in the rankings, his highest placement of 2025.<\/p>\n
He won\u2019t have things all his own way, however, as he competes among a strong field of clay-court specialists in Austria.<\/p>\n
Receiving a bye into round two, Bublik will take on the winner of Jaime Faria and Thiago Augustin Tirante\u2019s first-round match on Wednesday, July 23.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alexander Bublik has been in fine form recently as he continues to impress on the ATP Tour. Having…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16238,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[5560,6733,49,48,9109,82,593],"class_list":["post-16237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-alexander-bublik","tag-atp","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-john-isner","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16237\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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