![]() ![]() In that tense 11th game, Rune was distracted on one point by flickering, court-wide advertising boards behind his opponent which went black for a second as he prepared a shot and then lit up again. The third-seeded right-hander won the only break-point chance of the first set to lead 3-1 - also the first time unseeded Rune's service was broken this week - and pressured him into another service break to take a 6-5 lead in the second. Rune is now 2-2 in finals though he will be ranked inside the top 20 for the first time on Monday.Īuger-Aliassime improved his career record in finals to 4-9 with all four titles won this year at indoor hard-court events in Europe. The combined age of Auger-Aliassime and the 19-year-old Rune added up to the same 41 years as Federer. ![]() "I'm very far from that, but it's so cool to have my name with all these great champions at this prestigious tournament," said Auger-Aliassime, who beat the current US Open champion, top-ranked Carlos Alcaraz, on Saturday in the semifinals. ![]() ![]() The others are Novak Djokovic, Juan Martin del Potro - who both had to beat Federer in their finals - and Marin Čilić. Every winner of the Swiss Indoors from 2006 up to this edition also has a US Open title. ![]()
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