Tsitsipas and Collignon book Gstaad final spots after semi-final scares
Stefanos Tsitsipas and Raphael Collignon booked their places in Sunday’s EFG Swiss Open Gstaad final, the unseeded Greek chasing a first title since Dubai 2025 and the Belgian seventh seed completing a fightback past Juan Manuel Cerundolo.
Stefanos Tsitsipas, 2026 | © MTG
Unseeded Greek Stefanos Tsitsipas booked his spot in the EFG Swiss Open Gstaad final, beating Kazakhstan’s Aleksandr Shevchenko 6-4, 3-6, 6-3 in Saturday’s opening semi-final for his first tour-level final since winning the title in Dubai last year.
The world No. 85 has now dispatched three seeds on his way to Sunday’s title match, a run backed by his career-high ranking of No. 3, having beaten seed No. 4 Arthur Rinderknech 6-3, 3-6, 6-3, Switzerland’s Jerome Kym 6-4, 6-7(2), 7-6(5) and seed No. 5 Ignacio Buse 6-4, 6-4 in the rounds prior.
Shevchenko, ranked No. 100, reached his own semi-final by beating Frenchmen Quentin Halys 7-6(5), 6-3 and Alexandre Muller 3-6, 6-3, 6-4, as well as Switzerland’s Dominic Stricker 7-6(5), 6-2.
Belgian seed No. 7 Raphael Collignon completed the final by rallying after losing the first set 6-1 to beat Argentine seed No. 6 Juan Manuel Cerundolo 1-6, 7-6(5), 7-5 in the second semi-final.
The world No. 42 had already come through three-set battles against seed No. 3 Valentin Vacherot of Monaco 7-6(7), 4-6, 7-5 and Italy’s Lorenzo Sonego 7-6(2), 7-6(5), plus a win over Kazakhstan’s Timofey Skatov 3-6, 7-6(1), 6-4. Cerundolo, ranked No. 45 and last year’s beaten finalist in Gstaad, had eliminated second seed Casper Ruud 3-6, 7-5, 6-2 among his own wins this week, over Serbia’s Miomir Kecmanovic and the Czech Republic’s Zdenek Kolar.
Sunday’s final pits an unseeded run of seed scalps against a seventh seed who lost the first set 6-1 and came through anyway, with Collignon looking to go one better than the man he just beat did twelve months ago.
