David Ferrer outclassed his Spanish compatriot Nicolas Almagro in the Swedish Open final on Sunday, winning 6-1, 6-2 to clinch his fourth career title.
It was the second seed's third win over Almagro in as many meetings but the first on clay. Last year, Ferrer beat Almagro at the Cincinnati Masters and the US Open.
Ferrer took command from the start by forcing an impatient Almagro into long rallies, breaking him in the opening game and again to 4-1 and 6-1.
Almagro, whose usually good serving let him down, was broken again as Ferrero went 2-0 up in the second set before wrapping up victory in one hour eight minutes.
Mathieu triumphs
French fifth seed Paul-Henri Mathieu came from behind twice to win his fourth career title in Sunday’s Swiss Open final, beating Italy’s Andreas Seppi 6-7, 6-4, 7-5, adds Reuters from Gstaad.
Mathieu, the world number 28, was the strong favourite going into his meeting against Seppi, ranked 111th in the world and playing in his first ATP final.
The Italian looked likely to cause an upset however after taking the first set tie-break 7-1 and then breaking to lead 5-4 in the deciding third set.
Nerves then seemed to get the better of the 22-year-old who dropped his next two service games, allowing Mathieu to clinch his second claycourt title of the season following his April triumph in Casablanca.
Bopanna-Cuevas win
Rohan Bopanna and Pablo Cuevas of Uruguay rallied from a set down to beat the Dutch pair of Thierno de Bakker and Jesse Huta Galung and entered the final of Siemens Open ATP Challenger tennis event in Scheveningen, Holland, adds PTI from New Delhi.
The Indo-Uruguayan pair, seeded second in the tournament, beat the local wild cards 6-7 (4-7), 6-4, 10-1.
Bopanna and Cuevas will now take on another Dutch pair of Raemon Sluiter and Peter Wessels in the title match of the euro 85,000 claycourt event. Sluiter and Wessels beat the Dutch-Romanian pair of Sander Groen and Andrei Pavel 6-4, 6-3 to reach the final.
Santoro in final
Fourth-seeded Fabrice Santoro defeated Wesley Moodie 7-6 (7-2), 6-3 to set up the first all-French final in the 31-year history of the Hall of Fame tennis championships, adds AP from Newport.
Santoro will face No 5 seed Nicolas Mahut, who beat Dick Norman 6-4, 6-7 (7-2), 6-2 in the opening semifinal earlier on Saturday.