Aside from a brief hiccup at Wimbledon, Alexander Bublik has remained on a roll and is two wins away from another ATP title at the Swiss Open Gstaad.
Bublik, who recently triumphed on the grass courts of Stuttgart, has advanced this week with straight-set victories over Alexander Shevchenko and Francisco Comesana. The 34th-ranked Kazakh has won 11 matches dating back to the start of the French Open, where he made a surprising run to the quarterfinals.
Standing in Bublik’s way of the Gstaad final is Arthur Cazaux, who lost their only previous encounter 6-4, 7-6(1), 6-4 last summer at the All-England Club.
Cazaux is just 7-7 on the main tour in 2025, but he is also coming in pretty hot. The 116th-ranked Frenchman built some confidence by successfully qualifying for Wimbledon and reaching round two (beat Adam Walton in five sets before losing to Alex de Minaur in four). So far in Gstaad he has defeated Nikoloz Basilashvili, Tomas Martin Etcheverry, and Jerome Kym all in very tight three-setters.
With Bublik red hot on clay (no, that is not a misprint!) and Cazaux coming off a trio of three-setters, this will likely be one-way traffic for the tournament’s last remaining seed.
Pick: Bublik in 2
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He looks like a different person
Cazaux has a very big win this week over Etcheverry, since clay is not his surface and did play Bublik somewhat close on grass before, so will have a touch of confidence, but all signs point to Bublik here getting this done handily and is a big fav., Bublik in 2.
So the result was Bublik in 2.