The 27-year-old Brazilian beat Columbia’s Santiago Giraldo 6-3, 6-4 and has advanced to the Geneva Open finals to compete against Joao Sousa of Portugal for the title. He won the Switzerland’s clay court event, Gstaad twice.
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Seeded 60th, Belluci exclaimed “this is my favorite place to play. Maybe I feel very relaxed here”.
The sixth-seeded Sousa beat Federico Delbonis of Argentina, 6-3,6-4 in the other semi-final. Even though he won the third set, it lacked the dramatic quotient he displayed when he beat Spain’s Pablo Andujar, saving four match points in a tiebreaker.
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