Top-seeded Lorenzo Musetti of Italy will seek his third ATP Tour title in the Chengdu Open final against Chilean qualifier Alejandro Tabilo.<\/p>\n
Musetti<\/a> crushed Kazakhstan’s Alexander Shevchenko<\/a> 6-3, 6-1<\/a>, and Tabilo<\/a> eliminated fourth seed Brandon Nakashima<\/a> 6-4, 7-6(0)<\/a> in Monday’s semi-finals in China.<\/p>\n Musetti won 92% (24 of 26) of the points on his first serve and never faced a break point. Tabilo trailed 6-5 in the second set before levelling the match and sweeping the tiebreaker. He struck 11 aces and likewise never faced a break point.<\/p>\n Hangzhou Open<\/p>\n Third seed Alexander Bublik<\/a> fired 19 aces and joined elite company by defeating Chinese home favourite Wu Yibing<\/a> 6-3, 6-3<\/a> in the semi-finals.<\/p>\n Bublik became the fourth man to reach finals on all three surfaces this season, joining Carlos Alcaraz<\/a>, Jannik Sinner<\/a> and Alexander Zverev<\/a>. He finished Monday’s 61-minute victory with 28 winners and just six unforced errors.<\/p>\n With wins this season on clay (Gstaad, Kitzbuhel) and grass (Halle), Bublik will try to add a hardcourt title against French qualifier Valentin Royer<\/a>. Royer saved both break points and defeated fourth-seeded countryman Corentin Moutet<\/a> 6-3, 6-2<\/a> to reach his first tour-level final.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Top-seeded Lorenzo Musetti of Italy will seek his third ATP Tour title in the Chengdu Open final against…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":154632,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-154631","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-sports","9":"tag-tennis","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154631\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/154632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}