DPA
London
Top seed Daniil Medvedev beat Sam Querrey in the final of the Mallorca Championships to win his first ATP Tour grass-court final on Saturday.
Medvedev’s previous 10 titles have all come on hard courts, but veteran American Querrey was not able to stand in his way as the world number two coasted to a straight-sets victory and pre-Wimbledon confidence boost.
Russian Medvedev always looked in control as he won 6-4, 6-2 victory in just over an hour of what was his 18th career final.
Alex De Minaur claimed his first grass court title of his career with a hard-fought three-set victory over Lorenzo Sonego in the Viking International final in Eastbourne.
De Minaur lost the first set against his Italian opponent, who reached a career-high ranking of 26 earlier this month, but the Australian fought back to prevail 4-6 6-4 7-6 (7-5) ahead of Wimbledon starting on Monday.
Having forced a decider, it was De Minaur who had the most left in the third-set tie-break, which decided an entertaining contest that lasted two hours and 40 minutes.
It marked De Minaur’s second title of 2021 following his success at the Antalya Open back in January.
Prior to Saturday, all four of De Minaur’s ATP titles had come on hard courts.
London
Top seed Daniil Medvedev beat Sam Querrey in the final of the Mallorca Championships to win his first ATP Tour grass-court final on Saturday.
Medvedev’s previous 10 titles have all come on hard courts, but veteran American Querrey was not able to stand in his way as the world number two coasted to a straight-sets victory and pre-Wimbledon confidence boost.
Russian Medvedev always looked in control as he won 6-4, 6-2 victory in just over an hour of what was his 18th career final.
Alex De Minaur claimed his first grass court title of his career with a hard-fought three-set victory over Lorenzo Sonego in the Viking International final in Eastbourne.
De Minaur lost the first set against his Italian opponent, who reached a career-high ranking of 26 earlier this month, but the Australian fought back to prevail 4-6 6-4 7-6 (7-5) ahead of Wimbledon starting on Monday.
Having forced a decider, it was De Minaur who had the most left in the third-set tie-break, which decided an entertaining contest that lasted two hours and 40 minutes.
It marked De Minaur’s second title of 2021 following his success at the Antalya Open back in January.
Prior to Saturday, all four of De Minaur’s ATP titles had come on hard courts.