Sixth seed Holger Rune, Sunday, the best seed Carlos Alcaraz 7-6 (6) upset 6-2 to win the championship at Barcelona Open Banc Sabadell in Spain.
Rune, who has five career wins, has been the first ATP tour since 2023.
Rune took a break in the first set, but he returned to win at Tiebreaker, and then wandered against Alcaraz, which required two medical time -out to look at the health personnel during a one -hour, 41 -minute match.
Rune from Denmark will return to the top 10 when the ATP rankings updated with Rune are released on Monday. Alcaraz would protect the place 2 with a victory, but after the defeat, he would fall to the number 3 single player in the world.
In 2022 and 2023, Alcaraz won the Barcelona championship in his own country.
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Alexander Zverev gave an unforgettable birthday gift to win the championship in Munich, defeating Shelton 6-2, 6-4.
On his 28th birthday, the German guaranteed his third title in the tournament in front of house fans within 71 minutes. 24. Atp tour victory.
Since it reached the Australian Open Final in January, Zverev was only 6-6 in tour matches, but it seemed to have been renovated in Munich, and was taken to three sets on the road to the final of the Kil-Mahkeme tournament.
In the final, Zverev won 89 percent of the scores in his first service and made only seven forced mistakes for Shelton compared to 21. He did not encounter a break point and broke Shelton’s service three times as he moved to 2-0 in his career against the 22-year-old Americans.
Zverev, which will be number 2 in the ATP ranking, has previously won in Munich in 2017 and 2018.
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