Schwartzman was 6-4, 5-7 and 6-4 against Flix Auger-Aliassime.
Argentine Diego Schwartzman reached his third final of the 2020 season, after beating Canadian Félix Auger-Aliassime 6-4, 5-7 and 6-4 in one of the semis of the ATP 250 in Cologne, Germany, which started the European tour on fast surface and indoors.
The Buenos Aires tennis player will look for his first title of the year this Sunday, not before 14:30 in Argentina, when he faces the top favorite of the tournament and seventh in the world ranking, German Alexander Zverev.
In his reappearance on the circuit after reaching the Roland Garros semifinals, Schwartzman debuted his top ten status and settled in the definition of the German tournament, where he arrived as second seeded.
The “Peque” consecutively defeated the German Oscar Otten, the Spanish Alejandro Davidovich and this Saturday the promising Canadian Auger-Aliassime (22), just 20 years old, in the first confrontation for the ATP circle.
The current world number 9 played this year the ATP finals in Córdoba, which he lost to local Juan Ignacio Londero, and the Masters 1000 in Rome, where he succumbed to number one, Serbian Novak Djokovic, after eliminating in the previous instance Rafael Nadal (2) for the first time in his career.
Schwartzman has seven finals to his credit and three titles: Istanbul 2016, Rio de Janeiro 2019 and Los Cabos 2019.
He will look for the fourth against Zverev, who advanced to the decisive match with victory over Italian Jannik Sinner 7-6 (3) and 6-3.
The Argentine has a 2-1 advantage in the history with the German, whom he beat in Kitzbühel 2014 and the US Open 2019. The defeat corresponded to the 2018 Paris Masters 1000.
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