Lehecka-Vacherot, final in Basel

The Czech Jiri Lehecka came back and saved a match point this Saturday in the semifinals against the German Jan-Lennard Struff and this sunday will play for the ATP 500 Basel title against Valentin Vacherot, who defeated the sixth seed, the American Taylor Fritz, to reach his first final of the season and become the first Monegasque to reach the last match of the Swiss tournament.

Jiri Lehecka, eighth seed, beat Struff 3-6, 7-5 and 6-2 in just over two hours of fighting after saving a match point in the second set when Struff won 6-3, 5-4 and ahead of the rest. He extended the duel until the third round, in which a break in the first game was enough to take the victory.

Before, Vacherot, 27 years old, beat Fritz 7-6 (6) and 6-3. The Monegasque was losing 1-4 in the first set tiebreaker, but chained six of the next seven points to take the first set. Next, the Monegasque achieved a decisive break at 4-3 in the second set to seal the victory after one hour and 26 minutes by 7-6 (5) and 6-3.

In his first final of the year and at the ATP 500 level, Vacherot seeks its first trophy since the 2025 Shanghai tournamentwhere he became the lowest-ranked champion in Masters 1,000 history since 1990.

Lehecka and Vacherot They have met twice on the ATP Tour with a victory for each: in 2025 the Monegasque won the thirty-second final of the Paris Masters 1,000 in two sets and this same year the Czech won, also in two sets, in the Tokyo semifinals.