Alexander Bublik, Ugo Humbert advance to Dubai final
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No. 7 seed Alexander Bublik and No. 5 Ugo Humbert will meet in the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships final after an eventful semifinal round Friday.
Bublik was ahead 6-7 (4), 7-6 (5), 6-5 when No. 2 seed Andrey Rublev of Russia was defaulted for unsportsmanlike conduct after making comments to a line judge.
Bublik, of Kazakhstan, finished the two-hour, 31-minute match with 2