The first two matches of the main draw went as expected. The two favorites, Alexei Popyrin and Nuno Borges, claimed victory and could well go far in the 2025 Gonet Geneva Open.
Ranked 25th in the world, Alexei Popyrin won 6-4, 3-6, 7-5 against the 2023 tournament winner, Nicolas Jarry (ATP 53). Everything came down to the final game, in which Jarry committed three costly errors.
As for Nuno Borges (ATP 40), who enjoyed strong support from the many Portuguese fans in attendance, he defeated American Alex Michelsen (ATP 32) 4-6, 6-3, 6-3. The man who beat Rafael Nadal last year in the final at the Bastad tournament—“That day I was the bad guy of the entire tennis world, since everyone wanted Nadal to win,” he smiled—hopes to follow in the footsteps of his compatriot João Sousa, a finalist at the Gonet Geneva Open in 2015 and 2022.
