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First-serve points decided the Swedish Open final: 33 of 38 for the champion, 25 of 38 for the runner-up. Top seed Andrey Rublev closed out No. 2 seed Luciano Darderi 6-4 6-3 in 76 minutes, holding all ten service games without a double fault and saving both break points he faced. Darderi actually landed more first serves, 66 percent to 62, but converted neither of his two break chances while Rublev broke twice from four, and his last resistance was a match point saved before the second one ended it.
The result moves the ATP No. 16 to 2-0 in meetings on record, both on clay, after a 6-1 3-6 6-3 quarterfinal win at the Hamburg Open in May 2025. The trophy fits the ledger: Rublev's two Masters titles on record, Monte-Carlo in 2023 and Madrid in 2024, also came on clay.
The bracket's top two seeds will play for the Swedish Open title, and both spent three sets Saturday arranging it. The sterner test fell to No. 2 seed Luciano Darderi: Adolfo Daniel Vallejo, the ATP No. 71 and last unseeded man in the draw, saved three match points and took a 13-11 second-set tiebreak before going out 6-4 6-7(11) 6-3 in 2 hours, 57 minutes. Darderi broke for 2-0 in game 2 of the decider, the set's only break.
Also Saturday, top seed Andrey Rublev dropped the middle set to No. 3 seed Alejandro Tabilo but came through 6-4 4-6 6-4 in 2 hours, 9 minutes in the day's only all-seeded matchup. Sunday's title match is 1 against 2, with one meeting on record: Rublev leads the series 1-0 after a 6-1 3-6 6-3 quarterfinal at the 2025 Hamburg Open, also on clay, also in three.
Fifty-nine minutes settled the headline quarterfinal at the Swedish Open. A day after a two-tiebreak three-setter, Andrey Rublev conceded three games to No. 8 seed Sebastian Baez, winning 6-1 6-2 on 56 of 89 points and eight holds from eight service games, with a 78-to-50 percent edge in first-serve points won. The top seed faced one break point and saved it.
Also Friday, No. 2 seed Luciano Darderi got past No. 5 seed Nuno Borges 7-6(9) 6-4, which turned on an 11-9 tiebreak — a set point came and went before the opener ended — and a game-9 break for 5-4 in the second. In the lone all-unseeded quarterfinal, ATP No. 71 Adolfo Daniel Vallejo beat ATP No. 150 Stefano Travaglia 7-6(5) 6-2, while No. 3 seed Alejandro Tabilo advanced by walkover after Thiago Agustin Tirante's withdrawal. The semifinal draw now reads chalk plus one: Rublev against Tabilo, Vallejo against Darderi.
Every seed in action survived Day 4 at the Swedish Open, and nobody cut it closer than the No. 1 seed. Andrey Rublev hit 18 aces and held all 17 service games without facing a break point, yet ATP No. 138 Andrea Pellegrino saved three match points and six of seven break chances before the top seed closed 7-6(3) 6-7(7) 6-3 in 2 hours, 32 minutes.
Margins stayed thin elsewhere, too. No. 7 seed Thiago Agustin Tirante outlasted Nikoloz Basilashvili 7-5 3-6 6-4 in 2 hours, 44 minutes, and No. 3 Alejandro Tabilo dropped a second-set tiebreak to ATP No. 213 Lautaro Midon before advancing 6-4 6-7(5) 6-4; only No. 8 Sebastian Baez finished in straight sets, 6-4 6-2 over Jesper De Jong. Six seeds now fill the quarterfinal round, and Rublev's reward for the escape is its 1-versus-8 matchup against Baez.
Two of the four seeds in action fell on Day 3 at the Swedish Open, and both exits landed in the same quarter of the draw. Stefano Travaglia, the ATP No. 150, beat No. 4 seed Mariano Navone 6-4 6-2 behind nine holds from nine games, four break points saved from four and 68 percent of second-serve points won to Navone's 29, converting his fourth match point after the fourth seed fended off three. Two courts over, Adolfo Daniel Vallejo, the ATP No. 71, recovered from a set down to beat sixth seed Botic Van De Zandschulp 4-6 6-3 7-6(4).
Also Wednesday, fifth seed Nuno Borges ended wild card Grigor Dimitrov's tournament, 6-4 6-2 in 65 minutes, and second seed Luciano Darderi got past Daniel Altmaier 6-4 6-4. Two quarterfinals are now set: Vallejo vs Travaglia guarantees Bastad an unseeded semifinalist, while Borges vs Darderi pairs the seeds left standing.
Ninety points to Dalibor Svrcina's 101 reads as a loss, but it won Grigor Dimitrov his opener at the Swedish Open. The ATP No. 146 wild card, in his first match since a five-set Wimbledon exit, came through 7-6(5) 1-6 6-4 despite eight double faults and an 0-for-7 line on break points faced; Svrcina converted every chance he saw and still lost, as Dimitrov banked five breaks and the first-set tiebreak.
Also Tuesday, the seeds went four-for-four: No. 5 Nuno Borges, No. 6 Botic Van De Zandschulp and No. 7 Thiago Agustin Tirante won in straight sets, while No. 8 Sebastian Baez dropped a set to No. 1348 wild card Max Dahlin, 4-6 6-4 6-1. Qualifier Lautaro Midon, No. 213, landed the sharpest upset, over No. 110 Facundo Diaz Acosta. Five more unseeded winners filled a round that has yet to cost a seed — the top four haven't been needed yet.
Fifteen aces on clay were the signature of Day 1 at the Swedish Open, where the opener between Jesper De Jong and Vilius Gaubas was the only match to reach a finish. De Jong, the ATP No. 73, won 83% of first-serve points and put away the No. 129 in straight sets, 7-6(1) 7-5 — a scoreline that undersells the resistance: Gaubas saved 11 of 13 break points plus a match point, and De Jong's two conversions were just enough.
It was De Jong's first clay match since his Round-of-16 run at the French Open, and the serve made the trip back to dirt intact — three double faults next to the 15 aces, one break dropped in 12 service games. He arrived 3-4 on clay in 2026; the rest of the first round is still to come.