Alexander Bublik stuns Andrey Rublev to win Halle Open

HALLE, Germany — Kazakhstan’s Alexander Bublik upset Andrey Rublev 6-3, 3-6, 6-3 within the closing of the Halle Open on Sunday forward of Wimbledon.

It’s the second title of Bublik’s profession after he received in Montpellier final 12 months with the participant from Kazakhstan bettering to a 2-6 document in tour-level finals. He rises to a career-high twenty sixth within the rankings after beginning the week forty eighth.

Rublev drops to 13-8 in finals. The Russian is now a two-time Halle runner-up after shedding to Ugo Humbert within the 2021 closing.

The seventh-ranked Rublev is ready to return to Wimbledon subsequent month after lacking final 12 months’s version of the grass-court Grand Slam occasion when Russian and Belarusian gamers have been barred following the Russian invasion of Ukraine.