The Australian Jordan Thompson, 40th in the world rankingdefeated the Norwegian 6-3, 7-6(4) this Saturday Casper Ruud to win at Los Cabos Tennis Openhis first tour title ATP.
After removing the German this Friday Alexander Zverevfirst seed, Thompson confirmed in the final match Ruud have the best moment as a professional.
In the first set, the 29-year-old Australian showed great physical form; He hit 13 winners and won with a break in the sixth game. Ruud, 12th in the world rankings, wasn’t bad, but he missed six opportunities on the break and that’s where the set went.
Ruud came out in the second set to recover lost ground, in the second game he took advantage of four errors by Jordan and was ahead 2-0, however, he did not confirm the break.
With 80 percent of the points won on his first serve, Thompson stayed level and broke the European in the seventh game. He reached the tenth on his serve to close out the match, but Ruud held him back and forced a tie break.
With the score 2-2, Thompson made a mini break on the fifth point, then held his serve and secured his first title, which will allow him to rise eight places in the world rankings this Monday and reach 32nd, his best position.
Thompson and Ruud reached the final of the Los Cabos, ATP 250 tournament, after defeating the first two seeds, the German Zverev and the Greek Stefanos Tsitsipas; This Saturday they confirmed that they were the best players of the tournament, although Thompson performed better in the important moments.
8th different champion in eight editions
Jordan became the eighth different champion in eight editions of the tournament, in all cases originating from different countries. Previously, the Croatian Ivo Karlovic (2016), the American Sam Querrey (2017), the Italian Fabio Fognini (2018), the Argentine Diego Schwartzman (2019), the British Cameron Norrie (2021), the Russian Daniil Medvedev (2022) and the Greek Tsitsipas (2023).
Cabos for the first time It was played a week before the Mexican Tennis Open, the ATP’s 500th category tournament.which begins next Monday in Acapulco with six of the best 12 players in the world.
Russian Zverev, sixth on the tour, and Danish Holger Rune will be favorites in Acapulco (7), the Australian Alex De Minaur (9), the American Taylor Fritz (10), Tsitsipas (11) and Ruud (12).
Source: La Verdad
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