Daniil Medvedev will be gunning for his second Dubai title, after a dominant performance against Felix Auger-Aliassime, when he takes on Tallon Griekspoor in the Dubai Tennis Championships final.
Key Points
- Daniil Medvedev won the Dubai Tennis Championships title with walkover.
- Tallon Griekspoor pulled out of the title clash because of an injury he suffered in the semi-finals.
- Medvedev won the Dubai Tennis Championships for the second time in his career.
Daniil Medvedev was awarded the Dubai Tennis Championships title after his opponent Tallon Griekspoor withdrew due to an injury he suffered in the semi-finals, tournament organisers said on Saturday.
Russian Medvedev was chasing a second title in Dubai after he beat Felix Auger-Aliassime in the last four, and the former world number one reached the final without dropping a set.
Griekspoor Pulls Out With Injury
Griekspoor said after his straight-sets win over Andrey Rublev that he was struggling with a hamstring injury and would have retired had he lost the second set.
"Not how I want to win a final. Hoping the injury for Griekspoor is not too bad and wishing him a speedy recovery," Medvedev wrote on X.
Griekspoor had beaten fifth seed Andrey Rublev 7-5, 7-6(6) in the other semi-final.
The Dutchman denied the 2022 champion, who also finished runner-up the following year, another shot at the Dubai trophy, saving two set points in the second-set tiebreak.
"No idea how I pulled off this one, I could barely walk at the end of the first set," said Griekspoor, who took a medical timeout for treatment in the opening set.
"He served extremely well. I got very lucky in the tiebreak to win it in two sets ... I landed with a serve and felt something in my hamstring.
"If he had won the tiebreak, I don't know if I would have continued."
It marked three consecutive top-20 wins for Griekspoor for the first time in his career after he beat second seed Alexander Bublik and Jakub Mensik en route to the final.
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