# Almaty Open Semifinals Set: Medvedev, Tsitsipas, Bublik, Basilashvili

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Published: 2026-10-24T03:09:55.391+00:00
Updated: 2026-10-24T03:09:55.461434+00:00

> Top seed Daniil Medvedev and Stefanos Tsitsipas won their quarterfinals in straight sets on Friday, joining home favorite Alexander Bublik and Georgian veteran Nikoloz Basilashvili in Saturday's Almaty Open semifinals, while Leylah Fernandez reached the Ningbo Open last four.

## TL;DR
- Daniil Medvedev beat Terence Atmane 6-4, 6-4 and will face home favorite Alexander Bublik in Saturday's Almaty semifinal.
- Stefanos Tsitsipas beat James Duckworth 6-3, 6-4 to set up a semifinal with Georgian veteran Nikoloz Basilashvili.
- Bublik edged Karen Khachanov 4-6, 7-6(5), 7-6(5); Basilashvili routed Adrian Mannarino 6-3, 6-1.
- In the WTA, Leylah Fernandez beat Ekaterina Alexandrova 4-6, 6-2, 6-1 to reach the Ningbo semifinals.

## Key points
- Daniil Medvedev (world No. 5) beat Terence Atmane (No. 98) 6-4, 6-4 in the Almaty quarterfinals on October 23, 2026, never facing a break point and winning 91% of first-serve points.
- Medvedev, 47-18 this season with three titles (Brisbane, Dubai, Hangzhou), plays Alexander Bublik (No. 19) in the semifinal on Saturday at 6:00 pm on Center Court; the head-to-head is 7-1 for Medvedev, whose only loss was the 2025 Halle final.
- Bublik beat Karen Khachanov (No. 25) 4-6, 7-6(5), 7-6(5) in the closest quarterfinal, after receiving a second-round walkover when Fabian Marozsan withdrew with illness.
- Stefanos Tsitsipas (No. 39) beat James Duckworth (No. 73) 6-3, 6-4; he is 40-22 this season with a title in Gstaad.
- Nikoloz Basilashvili (No. 128) beat Adrian Mannarino (No. 79) 6-3, 6-1; Tsitsipas vs Basilashvili opens the semifinal slate Saturday at 3:00 pm on Center Court, with Tsitsipas leading the head-to-head 3-1.
- In WTA action, Leylah Fernandez (No. 30) beat Ekaterina Alexandrova 4-6, 6-2, 6-1 to reach the Ningbo Open semifinals, where she faces No. 26 Marie Bouzkova; it is her tour-leading 16th WTA 500 win of the season.

Saturday's Almaty Open semifinals are set, and the script could hardly be better: top seed Daniil Medvedev against Kazakhstan's own Alexander Bublik, and Stefanos Tsitsipas against veteran Georgian Nikoloz Basilashvili. All four quarterfinal winners emerged on Friday, and three of them never lost a set. The fourth — Bublik, playing in front of his home crowd — needed every bit of nerve to survive a third-set tiebreak against Karen Khachanov, capping a long day of tennis at the ATP 250.

Medvedev, the world No. 5, was in no mood for drama. The Russian beat France's Terence Atmane 6-4, 6-4, striking twice at the decisive moments: at 3-3 in the opening set and immediately at the start of the second. He never faced a break point all afternoon, winning 91 percent of his first-serve points and firing five aces. The numbers were ruthless and tidy — 24 winners against 14 unforced errors — and at no point did Atmane, the world No. 98, look like finding a way through Medvedev's deep, patient baseline game.

![Stefanos Tsitsipas hits his one-handed backhand (file photo, 1080x810).](https://dcwdppdscydjemfvownz.supabase.co/storage/v1/object/public/media/api/1792811389462-3x52w0-tennis-inside1-2026-10-24-morning.jpg)

The victory lifted Medvedev to 47-18 for the season, a year already decorated with three titles in Brisbane, Dubai and Hangzhou. It also put him one win from a fifth final of 2026, a mark of consistency that would cap an impressive return to form. His semifinal against Bublik is scheduled for Saturday at 6:00 pm on Center Court, and history leans heavily in the Russian's favor: he leads their head-to-head 7-1. But that single defeat came in their most recent meeting, when Bublik beat him 6-3, 7-6(4) in the 2025 Halle final on grass — a reminder that the Kazakhstani's unorthodox, touch-driven game can trouble even the tour's most accomplished counter-punchers.

Bublik earned his semifinal the hard way, and the Almaty crowd lived every point of it. The world No. 19 dropped the first set 4-6 to No. 25 Karen Khachanov, then won back-to-back tiebreaks 7-6(5), 7-6(5) to reach the last four. It was the second escape of the week for the 29-year-old Kazakhstani, who had advanced from the second round without playing after Fabian Marozsan withdrew with illness. This time he earned it, surviving the closest quarterfinal of the day and sending his home fans into a frenzy. The Hong Kong champion, now 31-21 on the season with one title, will carry both crowd energy and the weight of a 7-1 deficit into Saturday night's showdown.

![Alexander Bublik at the ATP tournament in Hong Kong, January 2026 (ATP media library, 1200x630).](https://dcwdppdscydjemfvownz.supabase.co/storage/v1/object/public/media/api/1792811392081-bslbv6-tennis-inside2-2026-10-24-morning.jpg)

The earlier semifinal belongs to Tsitsipas and Basilashvili, meeting Saturday at 3:00 pm on Center Court. Tsitsipas, ranked No. 39 and still rebuilding after a difficult stretch, beat Australia's James Duckworth 6-3, 6-4 in a match that never truly looked in doubt. The Greek broke once in each set and was never broken himself, playing with the compact, early-ball aggression that has defined his best tennis. The 28-year-old owns a 40-22 record this season with one title in Gstaad, and a run to the final in Almaty would be his most significant hard-court statement of the year.

Standing in his way is Basilashvili, whose run has been one of the stories of the week. The 34-year-old Georgian, ranked No. 128, demolished France's Adrian Mannarino 6-3, 6-1, needing barely an hour to reach his second semifinal of the season. Basilashvili's career has been a series of thunderous peaks and quiet valleys — five ATP titles, all earned in flashes of inspired shotmaking — and his baseline power was in full flow against Mannarino. This season he is 31-30, and every win this week has lifted him closer to a meaningful late-career resurgence. Tsitsipas leads their head-to-head 3-1, but none of those meetings came with a Georgian crowd's noise behind Basilashvili.

There was one notable WTA footnote to Friday's action in Asia. Canada's Leylah Fernandez moved into the Ningbo Open semifinals with a 4-6, 6-2, 6-1 comeback win over Russia's Ekaterina Alexandrova, evening their career series at 3-3. The 24-year-old dropped the opening set before finding her range, breaking four times without surrendering her serve once across the final two sets. It is her second win over Alexandrova in as many weeks, her 12th victory in her last 15 matches, and her tour-leading 16th WTA 500 win of the season — a remarkable number for the world No. 30, ahead of Mirra Andreeva and Jessica Pegula. Fernandez, who captured her sixth career WTA title in Singapore last month, now chases a second trophy of the season when she faces the 26th-ranked Marie Bouzkova on Saturday. The Czech won their only previous meeting back in 2019 in Toronto.

The semifinals in Almaty promise two distinct flavors: the afternoon's craft-versus-power clash between Tsitsipas and Basilashvili, and the evening's crowd-charged showdown between the top seed and the home favorite. If Medvedev's season is anything to go by, the favorite's lane is wide — but Bublik has already beaten him once, and home soil has a way of turning arithmetic into theatre.

Mentions: Daniil Medvedev, Terence Atmane, Alexander Bublik, Karen Khachanov, Fabian Marozsan, Stefanos Tsitsipas, James Duckworth, Nikoloz Basilashvili, Adrian Mannarino, Leylah Fernandez, Ekaterina Alexandrova, Marie Bouzkova, Mirra Andreeva, Jessica Pegula, Almaty Open, ATP 250, Ningbo Open, WTA 500

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