Andrey Rublev of Russia, the number seven seed, will play Alexander Bublik of Kazakhstan in the second round of the ATP Rotterdam Open on Thursday, February 13. The match is scheduled for 12.30 pm local time (11.30 am BST) and you can find the Andrey Rublev v Alexander Bublik live streaming options along with its preview, head to head and tips here.
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Andrey Rublev v Alexander Bublik Head to Head
The pair have played each other three times before, with Rublev leading their head to head series by two matches to one. Bublik won in Moscow in 2016, but Rublev was victorious in both their matches last year, in Moscow again, and then in Vienna, although both went to three sets.
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Rublev with a Ruthless in Win Over Basilashvili
Rublev is back on the winning trail after his long sequence of singles victories was ended by Alexander Zverev in Melbourne. Prior to that defeat by the seventh seed in the fourth round of the Australian Open, he had win 15 consecutive singles matches in a run that stretched back to 2019, when he was playing for Russia in the Davis Cup.
It also took in the first two tournaments he entered this year, in Doha and Auckland, both of which he won, meaning that, before the first month of the year was out, he had doubled the number of ATP career titles he has won to four.
Keen to get the Zverev result out of his system, he was ruthless in his match with the world number 28 Nikoloz Basilashvili on Tuesday, taking just 55 minutes to wrap the match up, and winning 91% of his points on first serve.
Bublik Struggling to Match 2019 Form
Russian-born Kazakh Bublik has never won a senior ATP tile, but he did reach two finals last year, the Hall of Fame Open in the US, where he lost to John Isner, and the Chengdu Open where he was defeated by the Spaniard Pablo Carreno Busta. However, he did win three Challenger events in 2019 – in Budapest, Pau, France, and Monterrey, Mexico – and ended the year at a career high ranking of 48.
So far, he has struggled to replicate that form in 2020. He began his season, like Rublev, in Doha, but was knocked out in the second round by Aljaz Bedene of Slovenia. He then went to Auckland, where again he lost in the second round, this time to Dan Evans of Great Britain.
At the Australian Open he did not even get that far, knocked out in the first round by Jordan Thompson of Australia.
Last week in Montpellier, it was a familiar story – progressing to the second round again, only to be beaten by David Goffin of Belgium.
He reached this stage in Rotterdam after a tight battle with Gregoire Barrere, beating the Frenchman in three sets on Tuesday.
Andrey Rublev v Alexander Bublik Predictions & Tips
Rublev wasted no time in beating Basilashvili on Tuesday, and he will want to be equally efficient when it comes to fending off the challenge of Bublik. The Kazakh player has already lost in the second round of tournaments three times this year, and Rotterdam is set to make it a fourth.
Tip: Rublev to win in straight sets: 8/15 (Click here to get these odds with Unibet)
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