GAME WEEK 5 RESULTS

ATP 

Rio de Janeiro      Sebastian Baez beat Alexandre Muller   6-2, 6-3

Doha                    Andrey Rublev beat Jack Draper   7-5, 5-7, 6-1

WTA

Dubai                    Mirra Andreeva beat Clara Tauson   7-6, 6-1

Rio de Janeiro

All eyes were on Joao Fonseca as the youngster took part in his home event fresh from winning the title in Buenos Aires the previous week.  But these are all new experiences for Fonseca and it was perhaps understandable that the pressure of playing at home got to him as he put in a below par performance in his defeat to Alexandre Muller.   Surprisingly Muller would go on to reach the final.

If there is one man who can be relied upon to rack up a substantial number of points on the South American clay, that man is Sebastian Baez and once again he delivered.  He required three sets to beat Navone and another three sets to beat Comesana who pulled off the shock of the week when he ousted Zverev in the quarter final. 

Baez retained the title he won in 2024 with a straightforward straight sets win against Frenchman Muller.

Doha

Its always great to see Andrey Rublev win a title given the mental torture he seems to have to go through on court and he certainly had to work for the Doha title.  After solid wins over Bublik and Borges he had to come through a couple of epics to see off a couple of form players in  De Minaur and Auger Aliassime.   On the other side of the draw, Draper was pulling off similar heroics coming from a set behind to beat both Berrettini and Lehecka.

It was no surprise then that Rublev and Draper traded the opening two sets in the final but Rublev broke clear in the third set to clinch the title.

WTA Dubai

It almost feels like a changing of the guard in the WTA at the moment.  Once again most of the top seeds were knocked out earlier than expected.  Sabalenka lost in the third round to Clara Tauson.  Swiatek lost in the quarter final to Andreeva and it was ultimately these two young ladies who would go on to reach the final.  Tauson followed up her win over Aryna with wins over the Czech duo of Noskova and Muchova and Andreeva took out Rybakina in the semi final.

After a tough opening set it was evident that Tauson was feeling the effects of a long hard week and Mirra cruised to a 7-6, 6-1 win to clinch her first 1000 title - no doubt the first of many!

Here is the FTL Leaderboard for Game Week 5 (Global League)

Impressive to see 6 teams clear 500 points in this game week.  Congrats to Sonja and her team AceCream who were the Game Week 5 winners with an impressive total of 553.798.  Dom Bond and Match Point Winners finished 2nd  and David Josselsohn (DJ_2025) came 2nd in the level 2 league.

Lets take a look at the head to head between Sonja and David in level 2.

Both Sonja and David had terrific teams for this game week.   Sonja had Dubai winner Andreeva and both Doha finalists in Rublev and Draper.  David had both Dubai finalists - Andreeva and Tauson and a solid DH in Noskova.   The key difference between the two sides was player placement however. Sonja had a terrific captain in Draper while Zverev did not bring home the anticipated result for DJ_2025.  Sonja also had Andreeva in a KP position ahead of Rybakina which proved to be an inspired choice.

Congrats to both on a great week.