Pablo Carreno Busta completed his triumphal march at the ATP tennis tournament at Hamburg’s Rothenbaum and crowned it with his sixth career title. In the final on Sunday, the 30-year-old Spaniard beat the Serb Filip Krajinovic 6: 2 6: 4 in 83 minutes and secured almost 100,000 euros in prize money. Krajinovic, on the other hand, missed his first title on the ATP tour, but still received 71,000 euros.
“We finally managed to win here, I’m really happy,” said Carreno Busta. As the only one of the top 3 seeded players, he stayed in the tournament until the end and didn’t give up a set on the way to winning the tournament. And he always determined what happened in the final.
Two early breaks played into his cards as well as the fact that his opponent did not reach the high level of the previous days with an extremely low error rate in his fourth ATP final. After 37 minutes, the Spaniard decided the first round for himself.
Busta wins ATP 500 in Hamburg
The winner of the ATP 500 tournament in Hamburg is Pablo Carreno Busta. The Spaniard was the only one of the top seeded stars to advance confidently and did not give a set in the final against surprise man Filip Krajinovic.
Since his service game did not work as well as against Tsitsipas and Djere, Krajinovic did not get into the match at all and conceded in the second set against the world number 13. another break immediately. That was enough for the sovereign Spaniard who made only a few mistakes and did not allow his opponent to break even in the final to bring the match home safely.
Third tournament victory by Ruud
The number one seeded Norwegian Casper Ruud won his third title on the ATP tour in Baastad, Sweden. Ruud defeated the Argentine Federico Coria 6: 3 6: 3 in the final. In Newport, South African Kevin Anderson, who started thanks to a wildcard, won the final against Jenson Brooksby (USA) 7: 6 (10/8) 6: 4. For Anderson it was the seventh title on the ATP tour.
