A spot in the next round is at stake on Saturday, when Alejandro Tabilo goes up against Andrey Rublev in the Bastad semifinal. Alejandro Tabilo has won 6 of the last 10. Andrey Rublev comes in at 7 wins from the last ten.
Alejandro Tabilo leads the head-to-head 2-1, and history has a way of mattering in matchups like this one.
On paper it's close: comparable ratings, comparable serve numbers, small margins everywhere. Rublev comes in off a compressed schedule. This one is close to a coin flip, and the lean toward Tabilo is exactly that — a lean.