Qualifier Klizan Conquers Fognini, Wins ATP Munich For Second Career ATP Title
Our onsite correspondent Manuel will have a recap of Carlos Berlocq’s upset of Tomas Berdych in the Portugal Open final later, but in the meantime, here is a recap of ATP Munich, where Martin Klizan won his second career ATP final over Fabio Fognini 2-6, 6-1, 6-2.
Klizan, a qualifier, was able to get past a strong first set from Fognini and proceed to watch the Italian toss the match away. In an interesting trivia fact, he also won his other ATP title in St. Petersburg in 2012 against Fognini in 3 sets. The formerly top 30 Slovak will zoom from 111 in the rankings to start the week, to 61 in the rankings now after taking the title.
Klizan had a rough 2013, but he’s a talented player and he showed it this week with main draw wins over Dudi Sela, Mikhail Youzhny, Denis Istomin and a troubled Tommy Haas. The wins over Youzhny and Istomin came in 3 sets and the win over Youzhny finished 7-2 in the third set tiebreak.
Fognini beat Dustin Brown, Thomaz Bellucci, and JL Struff to reach the final and he did not face a main draw direct entrant all week as Brown was a wild card and Bellucci and Struff were qualifiers.
Jamie Murray and John Peers beat Colin Fleming/Ross Hutchins to win the doubles final, it was a great moment for Hutchins as he reached his first doubles final since returning to the tour after beating cancer.
—-Steen Kirby, Tennis East Coast
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