UTS London: Humbert and Monfils qualify for the semi-finals!

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Jules Hypolite

le 07/12/2024 à 22h34

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Bublik De Minaur Humbert Kokkinakis Monfils Rublev Rune Struff

The final weekend of competition at UTS 2024 kicked off yesterday in London.

After the second and penultimate day of the event, we now know the line-ups for the semi-finals to be played on Sunday.

In Group A, Ugo Humbert and Gaël Monfils qualified with a record of two wins and one loss.

Gaël "La Monf" Monfils started the day with a sudden-death victory over Thanasi "Kokki" Kokkinakis (11-12, 11-12, 15-12, 13-8, 3-2).

Despite losing to Ugo "The Commander" Humbert later in the evening (20-11, 17-9, 10-14, 9-13, 2-0), the Parisian will be in the semi-finals tomorrow.

For Humbert, it was Andrey "Rublo" Rublev's defeat of Kokkinakis (15-14, 12-11, 9-15, 11-15, 2-1) that enabled him to reach the last four of the competition.

In the other group, Alex "The Demon" De Minaur quietly advanced to the semi-finals, beating Alexander "The Bublik Enemy" (20-9, 17-12, 13-14, 18-13) and Jan-Lennard "The Thunder" Struff (13-16, 18-11, 19-8, 21-6).

The Australian thus finished the group phase unbeaten.

Finally, Holger "The Viking" Rune secured his ticket to the semi-finals with a straightforward victory over Bublik (21-8, 17-9, 18-12) and then Struff in the night session (15-10, 15-12, 16-11).

Tomorrow's matches will pit Gaël Monfils against Alex De Minaur (from 2.30pm local time) and Ugo Humbert against Holger Rune (not before 3.30pm). The final will then be played at 5pm.