Solely two seeds stay in Bucharest, the place No. 1 Sebastian Baez and No. 3 Flavio Cobolli are on a collision course for the ultimate. Standing of their approach on Saturday are Marton Fucsovics and Damir Dzumhur, respectively.(1) Sebastian Baez vs. Marton FucsovicsBaez can in all probability be outlined as one of the best ATP 250 clay-courter on the planet. Not together with guys who typically don’t play 250s (the top-ranked gamers plus completed clay-courters like Casper Ruud and Stefanos Tsitsipas), Baez is the cream of the crop. The Thirty sixth-ranked Argentine efficiently defended his Rio de Janeiro title in February and he completed runner-up in Santiago. Baez now finds himself in one other semifinal on the Tiriac Open, having defeated Gabriel Diallo and Francisco Comesana earlier within the week.
(3) Flavio Cobolli vs. Damir DzumhurCobolli and Dzumhur shall be squaring off for the fourth time of their careers and for the primary time on the ATP degree on Saturday. They’ve confronted one another 3 times on the Challenger circuit, with Dzumhur having gained two of three earlier contests. It’s 1-1 on clay after Cobolli prevailed 3-6, 6-2, 7-5 on the 2023 Zadar Challenger and Dzumhur acquired the job performed 7-5, 6-4 within the 2024 Sibiu Challenger semifinals.
It has been a story of two totally different seasons for these two gamers. Dzumhur has quietly labored his approach again as much as sixty fifth within the rankings because of an entire host of success on the Challenger circuit. Now he’s into an ATP semifinal following victories over Valentin Vacherot, Filip Cristian Jianu, and Pedro Martinez. Cobolli was a horrendous 2-8 on the principle tour for his 2025 marketing campaign previous to beating Richard Gasquet and Filip Misolic. The Forty fifth-ranked Italian has to do much more than beat Gasquet and Misolic to show that he’s again on monitor, plus he has to face a particularly assured opponent who has all the time been nice on clay.
Choose: Dzumhur in 3
