Haase/Oswald Win Match Tie-Break To Reach Gstaad Final

Robin Haase and Philipp Oswald dropped their first set this week at the EFG Swiss Open Gstaad in Saturday’s semi-finals, but quickly recovered to claim a 7-5, 3-6, 10-3 win against Italians Lorenzo Sonego and Andrea Vavassori.

The Dutch-Austrian duo claimed its only break point of the match to secure the opening set and saved six of the seven break point against them in the contest. The victory puts them through to their second tour-level final as a team; they won their only previous title match in 2019 in Umag.

Tomislav Brkic and Francisco Cabral will provide the opposition in Sunday’s final after the Bosnian-Portuguese duo eased past Fabrice Martin and Franko Skugor 6-3 6-3 without facing a break point. The pair is seeking it first title as a team, though Martin is a seven-time tour-level doubles champion and Skugor has six titles to his name.

Glasspool/Heliovaara Pull Upset In Hamburg
Lloyd Glasspool and Harri Heliovaara defeated third seeds Tim Puetz and Michael Venus 6-4 6-4 in the Hamburg European Open semi-finals on Saturday, extending their perfect record this week to six sets won from six played.

The British-Finnish duo knocked out second seeds Neal Skupski and Wesley Koolhof in the opening round before dismissing two-time Roland Garros champions Andreas Mies and Kevin Krawietz in the second round. They will seek their first title of 2022 in their fourth final of the season after falling just short in Montpellier, Dallas and The Queen’s Club in London.

Rohan Bopanna and Matwe Middelkoop await in the final. The fourth seeds knocked off top seeds Marcel Granollers and Horacio Zeballos 3-6, 6-3, 10-3 on Friday.