Nikoloz Basilashvili beat Adam Walton 6-4, 7-6(4) in the Almaty qualifying final on October 18, 2026. The fifth qualifying seed created twelve break points against the second seed but converted only one.
Walton saved eleven of those twelve chances. Basilashvili held all eleven of his service games, leaving the single break as the first-set margin, then won the second-set tiebreak 7-4.
Tennis.com records no break points faced by Basilashvili. He won 31 of 39 first-serve points and struck eleven aces, while Walton hit fifteen.
Walton played ninety points on serve, compared with Basilashvili’s sixty-six. A single conversion from repeated return opportunities and the tiebreak win carried Basilashvili into the ATP 250 main draw.
