Juan Martin Del Potro and Jo-Wilfried Tsonga both lift ATP titles
Sunday 22 October 2017 18:23, UK
Juan Martin Del Potro made a successful defence of his Stockholm Open title while Jo-Wilfried Tsonga lifted the European Open on Sunday.
Del Potro beat Grigor Dimitrov 6-4 6-2 to climb to 14th in the race to the season-ending ATP World Tour Finals in London.
Dimitrov, who was top seed in Sweden, sits in fifth place ahead of Marin Cilic, with Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal, Alexander Zverev and Dominic Thiem having already confirmed their places.
The 29-year-old Argentine served nine aces and remained unbroken in a display of power to cruise past the Bulgarian in one hour and 25 minutes.
"I played the best match of the week against Grigor today," Del Potro said. "It's amazing to come back and hold this big trophy. And hopefully I can come next year as well."
"I love to be in Stockholm. I like the city a lot. I like the Swedish people and you treated me very, very good this week and I would like to thank everyone."
Former US Open champion Del Potro made the Shanghai semi-finals last week before clinching his first title of the season on the indoor hard courts in the Swedish capital and a landmark 20th of his career.
He became just the third Argentine player to reach the mark after Guillermo Vilas, who won 62 titles and Jose Luis Clerc who ended his career on 25.
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World No 17 Tsonga clinched his third title of the season when the Frenchman defeated Argentina's Diego Schwartzman 6-3 7-5 in Antwerp.
Tsonga had already triumphed in Rotterdam and Marseille this year and the 32-year-old is next due to play at the Vienna Open starting Monday and then the Paris Masters the following week as he looks to boost his chances of
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Tsonga, who is set to lead France in next month's Davis Cup final against Belgium in Lille, is 550 points behind Pablo Carreno Busta, who currently holds the final qualification spot.
Bosnian sixth seed Damir Dzumhur claimed his second ATP title with a 6-2 1-6 6-4 defeat of Lithuanian Ricardas Berankis, 169th in the world, in the final of the Kremlin Cup in Moscow.
"There's something special here in Russia," said Dzumhur, who will climb to a career-high of 31st in the ATP Rankings on Monday. "Today I tried to make good serves and it worked well. I also made some amazing backhands.
"I was a bit lucky but that's tennis, we need to be lucky to win some games."
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