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The Frenchman had already eliminated Yurij Rodionov in two sets in the previous round and will now face the American Sebastian Korda in the final on Tuesday. Ofner can console himself with being in the top 50 in the ranking for the first time.
The 27-year-old started well in his first duel with Mannarino and managed a break in the sixth game to make it 4-2. Afterwards, Ofner didn’t play any more games in the first set and gave up his service twice. His 35-year-old opponent, however, used his second set point. In the second round, the world number 34 took serve from the Styrian in the fifth and seventh games and served out without any problems after 70 minutes.
Ofner can still count his appearance in Astana as a success, with this year’s French Open round of 16 taking almost 50,000 euros in prize money and an all-time high in the world rankings with him to Shanghai. There he will meet the Peruvian Juan Pablo Varillas at the start of the ATP 1000 tournament. Ofner is the only ÖTV player in the singles at the $10.046 million hard court tournament. The main round begins on Wednesday.
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