Gijon Open 2022 Final: Andrey Rublev vs Sebastian Korda Live Stream, Match Timings, Prediction, and Preview

Gijon Open 2022 Final: Andrey Rublev vs Sebastian Korda Live Stream, Match Timings, Prediction, and Preview

Andrey Rublev and Sebastian Korda

Top seed Andrey Rublev will be up against American youngster Sebastian Korda in the final of the 2022 Gijon Open.

Andrey Rublev vs Sebastian Korda: Match Details

  • Tournament: Gijon Open ATP 250
  • Match: Andrey Rublev vs Sebastian Korda
  • Round: Final
  • Date: 16th October 2022
  • Venue: Gijon, Spain
  • Surface: Hard
  • Prize Money: €612,000

Andrey Rublev vs Sebastian Korda: Preview

Sebastian Korda
Sebastian Korda

Andrey Rublev has had a mixed year so far. Despite being not able to reach at least the semi-finals in each of the 4 grand slams this year, He played some thrilling encounters this year. An epic 5-setter in Round 3 against Denis Shapovalov in the US Open 2022 was one of those where he was able to overcome the Canadian in a 5th set super tie-breaker playing for more than 4 hours.

His Serbia open-final win against Novak Djokovic was also a notable mention. He has won 3 ATP titles so far (Belgrade (Outdoor/Clay), Dubai (Outdoor/Hard), and Marseille (Indoor/Hard)). He stands at 43-16 this season before the ongoing tournament. His straight-sets victory over the dangerous American World No.30 Tommy Paul in the quarter-finals and Dominic Thiem(as we predicted) in the semi-final showed why he is a top-10 player of the world.

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22-year-old Sebastian Korda is slowly making progress to the top of the world. Though he is yet to win an ATP title this year, he has managed to reach a career-high ranking of 30 in May this year. With the injury that occurred during the grass season, he has gone down again in the rankings after May. He also hasn’t gone past Round 3 in any of the grand slam tournaments played this season.

Korda’s win-loss record is 26-19 this season before the Gijon Open. He was able to win 1 out of the 3 top-10 matches played this year. One was a close loss to the Greatest Player Of All Time- Rafael Nadal after going up 5-2 in the third set during the second-round match in Indian Wells Masters 1000.

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Korda had to play 3-setters in both Round 2 and quarter-finals in consecutive days here but managed to get a straight set to win against French World No. 56 Arthur Rinderknech in the semi-finals. He had to save two set points against Rinderknech in the first set but dominated the second set.

Andrey Rublev vs Sebastian Korda: Prediction

Andrey Rublev
Andrey Rublev

This is the second battle between these two, the first encounter was in Miami Masters 2021 quarter-finals when the 24-year-old Russian was able to win in two tight sets. Looking at the current form, Rublev has a slight advantage in this match-up but expects this to be a close battle.

Prediction: Rublev is to win in three sets.

Also read: Watch: Arthur Rinderknech saves 9 match points to defeat Pablo Carreno-Busta to qualify for the Gijon Open Semi-finals 

Andrey Rublev vs Sebastian Korda: Live and Broadcast Details

  • USA – Tennis Channel
  • UK – Amazon Prime Video
  • Australia – beIN Sports
  • France– Eurosport
  • Germany– Sky Deutschland
  • Canada –TSN
  • Spain – Telefonica (Movistar)
  • India – Discovery/Tennis TV

Andrey Rublev vs Sebastian Korda: Match Timings

  • Melbourne– 11:00 PM
  • Paris– 2:00 PM
  • London– 1:00 PM
  • New York– 8:00 AM
  • Toronto– 8:00 AM
  • Gijon– 2:00 PM
  • India– 5:30 PM

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