The meeting lasted 1 hour 50 minutes and ended with a score of 7: 6 (7: 4), 6: 4 in favor of the eighth racket of the world.
Rublev made one double mistake per match, filed three times through and realized one out of six Brai-point.
This is the fifth victory in a row for the Russian tennis player in the ATP 500 series tournaments.
Earlier it was reported that Veronika Kudermetova defeated Svetlana Pavlyuchenkova at the start of the WTA tournament in Dubai.