In the first semi-final at the 2025 Paris Masters, Felix Auger-Aliassime delivered a stellar performance to beat Alexander Bublik in straight sets.<\/p>\n
Auger-Aliassime<\/a> earned a 7-6(3), 6-4 victory against world No 16 Bublik to progress to his maiden Paris Masters final and second career Masters 1000 title match.<\/p>\n The result has seen Auger-Aliassime make a big jump in the Race to the ATP Finals in Turin, and it has ended Bublik\u2019s hopes of qualifying for the season-ending event.<\/p>\n Neither player faced a break point in a serve-dominated and high-quality opening set, with Auger-Aliassime claiming two mini-breaks to take the tiebreak.<\/p>\n Auger-Aliassime\u2019s lofty level dropped in the early stages of the second set as he was broken by Bublik in his opening two service games.<\/p>\n After trailing 1-4, though, Auger-Aliassime won five straight games to seal the win, having broken the big-serving Bublik three times in the set.<\/p>\n Auger-Aliassime\u2019s triumph over Bublik has moved him above Lorenzo Musetti into the eighth and final qualification spot for the ATP Finals.<\/p>\n The Canadian\u2019s run to the final in Paris has earned him 650 points, putting him on 3,845 points in the Race to Turin rankings.<\/p>\n Lorenzo Musetti, who started the week in the No 8 spot, is now 160 points adrift of Auger-Aliassime.<\/p>\n Auger-Aliassime\u2019s qualification for the ATP Finals is not yet assured as Musetti will play at the ATP 250 in Athens next week.<\/p>\n If Auger-Aliassime wins the Paris title, though, he will move onto 4,195 points \u2014 a total that will guarantee his spot in Turin as Musetti would not be able to earn enough points to overtake him.<\/p>\n Winning the Paris title would lift Auger-Aliassime above Ben Shelton, Taylor Fritz and Alex de Minaur into fifth position in the Race.<\/p>\n Why Auger-Aliassime could still miss out on ATP Finals even if he moves ahead of Musetti after Paris Masters<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Hellenic Championship draw: Djokovic the favourite as Musetti makes late-gasp ATP Finals bid<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Bublik, who is 11th in the Race to Turin, needed to win the Paris Masters to keep his hopes of qualifying for the ATP Finals alive. His semi-final elimination, though, has mathematically ruled him out.<\/p>\n The Russian-born Kazakh may still have the chance to feature in Turin as an alternate.<\/p>\n Auger-Aliassime will face either Jannik Sinner or Alexander Zverev in the Paris final as he aims to win the biggest title of his career.<\/p>\n In an interview with Tennis TV, Auger-Aliassime was asked how happy he was with the way he imposed his game and character on the match.<\/p>\n \u201cYeah, I\u2019m so happy, and a Masters 1000 final sounds so good. You don\u2019t play those finals every week, so hopefully I can go all the way and get the title,\u201d the 25-year-old said.<\/p>\n \u201cThese are the matches you train for and play for. It\u2019s always great to play these guys, to see how my game matches with them. I\u2019ve been playing tennis for a long time, training all this year to improve, and I\u2019ve made some great improvements.<\/p>\n \u201cAnd now tomorrow, I have a chance to showcase it in front of everyone, so I\u2019m gonna wake up ready. With these guys, you have to be so sharp, tactically disciplined. They don\u2019t give you anything, so you have to be ready to play your A-game.\u201d<\/p>\n READ NEXT: Why it is \u2018difficult to draw any conclusions\u2019 about Jannik Sinner\u2019s Paris Masters level: Ex-ATP star<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n The post How Felix Auger-Aliassime\u2019s Paris Masters win over Alexander Bublik affects ATP Finals Race<\/a> appeared first on Tennis365<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In the first semi-final at the 2025 Paris Masters, Felix Auger-Aliassime delivered a stellar performance to beat Alexander Bublik in straight sets. Auger-Aliassime earned a 7-6(3), 6-4 victory against world No 16 Bublik to progress to his maiden Paris Masters final and second career Masters 1000 title match. The result has seen Auger-Aliassime make a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1257\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Felix Auger-Aliassime makes major ATP Finals move as he reaches Paris Masters final<\/h2>\n
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