The German Jan-Lennard Struff, who has been on the circuit since 2009, will play his first final of an ATP tournament on Sunday at the age of 31, in Munich on clay against the Georgian Nikoloz Basilashvili who will be in his seventh. The 44th player in the world largely dominated Belarusian Ilya Ivashka in the semi-finals, a player ranked 107th in the world and from qualifying, 6-4, 6-1 in less than an hour and a half.
His future opponent, Basilashvili, 35th in the world, took even less time to get rid of the Norwegian Casper Ruud, 22 years old and 24th in the world, 6-1, 6-2 in 1 h 10 min. The 29-year-old has already won a tournament this year in Doha, beating two Top 20 players, Roger Federer and Roberto Bautista Agut. Struff and Basilashvili will meet for the fifth time. They are at 2 wins each. Their last face-to-face, a month ago in the quarterfinals of the clay court tournament in Cagliari, turned to the advantage of the Georgian.
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