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First serves decided the Kitzbühel Open final: top seed Alexander Bublik landed 40 percent of them, Quentin Halys 83. The ATP No. 90 won 33 of 38 points behind that first delivery with 17 aces to Bublik's six, never faced a break point across 11 holds, and closed it 6-4, 7-6(6) in 1 hour, 53 minutes. Bublik saved five of the six break points he faced and dropped serve only once, but he never earned a break chance of his own.
The trophy is the first on Halys's record and completes a double over the ATP No. 11: eight days after beating Bublik 6-7(4), 6-4, 7-6(5) in the Gstaad round of 16, he now owns both of their meetings on record. Only a 2025 win over then-No. 9 Andrey Rublev sits above that pair on his list of best wins by opponent rank.
Eight match points came and went before Quentin Halys landed a ninth, the ATP No. 90 closing out Yannick Hanfmann 6-4, 7-6(2) in the Kitzbühel Open semifinals. Halys won 32 of 34 first-serve points with 11 aces and still hasn't dropped a set in four rounds this week; Hanfmann, ranked 39 spots above him at No. 51, saved eight of ten break points and broke him once, but managed two points in the deciding tiebreak.
Also Friday, top seed Alexander Bublik beat fourth seed Tomas Martin Etcheverry 6-3, 6-4 in 83 minutes, leaving the ATP No. 11 as the lone seed standing. The final is a week-old rivalry resumed: Halys leads their series 1-0 on record after beating Bublik 6-7(4), 6-4, 7-6(5) in the Gstaad round of 16 last Friday — this time with the title attached.
Quarterfinal day at the Kitzbühel Open belonged to the lowest-ranked man left in it. ATP No. 90 Quentin Halys, who removed No. 2 seed Valentin Vacherot 6-3, 6-4 in the last 16, held off Mariano Navone, ranked 42 places above him, 7-5, 6-3 in 86 minutes. Navone landed 70 percent of first serves but won only 62 percent of those points, against Halys's 80. He has not dropped a set in three rounds.
The other three quarterfinals went with rank. Top seed Alexander Bublik out-aced Alex Molcan 13-1 in a 69-minute 6-3, 6-2 win, fourth seed Tomas Martin Etcheverry ended fifth seed Ignacio Buse's week 6-2, 7-5, and Yannick Hanfmann conceded four games to Sebastian Baez, 6-3, 6-1. That leaves a clean split: Bublik and Etcheverry, the only seeds standing, meet in one semifinal, while Hanfmann–Halys guarantees an unseeded finalist.
Second seed Valentin Vacherot is out of the Kitzbühel Open, beaten 6-3, 6-4 in 77 minutes by ATP No. 90 Quentin Halys, who held all ten service games and converted both break points he earned. Vacherot matched him at 77 percent on first-serve points, but the second-serve split — 72 percent to 52 in Halys's favor — decided it.
Also Wednesday, third seed Arthur Rinderknech fell 7-6(6), 2-6, 6-4 to Sebastian Baez, while Mariano Navone opened 6-0 on sixth seed Jan-Lennard Struff in a 64-minute win. The rest of the chalk held: top seed Alexander Bublik, No. 4 Tomas Martin Etcheverry and No. 5 Ignacio Buse all advanced, Buse from a set down against a qualifier. That leaves three of eight seeds in the quarterfinals, two of them colliding immediately: Etcheverry meets Buse next, while Halys draws Navone with a semifinal place on offer.
Day 2 at the Kitzbühel Open cleared out the bottom of the seed list, both exits in straight sets. Marco Trungelliti, ATP No. 99, beat eighth seed Juan Manuel Cerundolo 6-2, 6-1, breaking five times and dropping one service game as Cerundolo landed 42 percent of first serves. Also Tuesday, Daniel Altmaier removed seventh seed Raphael Collignon 6-3, 6-2 in 84 minutes.
Jan-Lennard Struff, the sixth seed, spared the seeds a sweep, taking the last two sets from Alexander Shevchenko 3-6, 7-6(5), 6-4 after breaking in games 1 and 3 of a third set where he won every first-serve point behind six aces. Elsewhere, qualifier Kilian Feldbausch, ATP No. 262, beat Adolfo Daniel Vallejo 7-6(2), 6-1 to draw fifth seed Ignacio Buse, while Alex Molcan, Sebastian Baez and Quentin Halys advanced. The last 16 keeps six of eight seeds, headlined by top seed Alexander Bublik against Facundo Diaz Acosta.
Chalk ruled Day 1 at the Kitzbühel Open, and its lone seed was pushed hardest. Four weeks after Vit Kopriva beat him 7-5, 6-1 in Mallorca, fifth seed Ignacio Buse reversed it 7-5, 6-7(3), 6-1 in 2 hours, 49 minutes, erasing Kopriva's game-9 break in the opener with breaks in games 10 and 12. Buse converted 3 of 14 break points through two sets, then 3-for-3 in a decider Kopriva finished without a chance.
Elsewhere, rank order went four-for-four. Mariano Navone allowed wild card Alexandre Muller four games in 80 minutes, and Yannick Hanfmann edged wild card Lukas Neumayer 7-6(5), 6-4. Also Monday, Facundo Diaz Acosta rallied from a set down past qualifier Federico Cina, while qualifier Jurij Rodionov handled wild card Josef Schwaerzler Joel 6-4, 6-2. The seed line survives the day intact, and Buse, 12-8 on clay coming in, is the first man into the round of 16.