Illustration photo – Chinese tennis player I-ping Wu (pictured on September 2, 2022).
Abu Dhabi/Dallas/Linec/Montpellier/Dallas – Swiss tennis player Belinda Bencic averted three match points and dominated the tournament in Abu Dhabi. Wu I-ping mastered a tie-break battle with American John Isner in the Dallas final to become China's first ATP Tour winner. Russia's Anastasia Potapova triumphed in Linz and won the second title of her career. Italian Jannik Sinner, who won the tournament in Montpellier, has his seventh title.
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Bencic saved three match points and dominated the tournament in Abu Dhabi
Bencic saved three match points in the final in Abu Dhabi and beat Russia's Lyudmila Samsonova 1-6 after a reversal , 7:6 and 6:4.
After an unsuccessful first set, Bencic took the lead 5:2, but Samsonov equalized and a tie-break had to be decided. In the shortened game, the 25-year-old Swiss faced three match points, but managed to win the third set.
Although Bencicová was the first to lose her serve, she immediately took it back and immediately gained a decisive lead of 4:2, which she had already defended and went on to win the second title of the year. The current world number nine triumphed for the first time in January in Adelaide.
In total, the Olympic champion from Tokyo extended her collection of achievements to eight titles. Despite the defeat, Samsonova will move to the 15th place in the new edition of the world rankings.
Ruska Potapova won the second title of her career in Linz
In the final in Linz, Potapova beat Petra Martičová from Croatia 6:3 and 6:1. The semi-final defeater of Markéta Vondroušová won the second title in her career.
Potapova improved her final balance to two wins and three defeats. The only title so far for the 21-year-old Russian, who will move to 31st in the rankings and set a new personal best, was won last year in Istanbul.
Sinner beat Cressy in Montpellier and has the seventh title of his career
< p>Twenty-one-year-old Sinner won 7:6 and 6:3 over the American Maxim Cressy in the final in Montpellier.
The tournament's number two Sinner confirmed his role as the favorite and defeated his unseeded opponent in one hour and 36 minutes. The 17th player in the world finished without losing a set on his way to the first title of the season.
Wu I-ping became the first Chinese tennis player to win an ATP tournament
Tennis player Wu I-ping won the tie-break battle with American John Isner in the final in Dallas and became the first Chinese ATP Tour winner. The 23-year-old player won the three-hour duel 6:7, 7:6 and 7:6.
Wu I-ping, currently 97th in the rankings, made history already by advancing to the finals, where he even improved the best result in Chinese men's tennis. With the more than two-meter Isner, who during the tournament surpassed the mark of 500 won tie-breaks in his career, although he lost the first set in a shortened set, he managed to turn around.
In the second set at 5:6, Wu I-ping averted a match point on his serve and dominated the shortened game 7:3. The dramatic climax of the entire tournament was brought by the third tie-break, in which the Chinese tennis player averted three more match points, Isner even four, and Wu I-ping eventually won 14:12.
In the marathon match, both players won all 18 of their gams on the serve, 44 aces did not help the 37-year-old Isner to the seventeenth title of his career.
Results of tennis tournaments
(sorted according to the amount of the subsidy)
< p>Dallas Men's Tournament:
(Hard Court, $822,175 Endowment):
Singles – Semifinals :
Wu I-ping (China) – Fritz (1-USA) 6:7 (3:7), 7:5, 6:4, Isner (5-USA) – Wolf (6-USA) 3:6, 7: 5, 7:6 (7:4).
Final:
Wu I-ping (China) – Isner (5-USA) 7: 6 (7:4), 6:7 (3:7), 7:6 (14:12).
Women's tournament in Abu Dhabi
(hard surface, $780,637 subsidy):
Singles – final:
Bencic (2-Switzerland) – Samsonova (8-Russia) 1:6, 7:6 (10:8), 6:4.
Doubles – final:< /p>
Stefaniová, Zhang Shuai (Brazil/China) – Aoyama, Zhang Chao-ching (Japan/Taiwan) 3:6, 6:2, 10:8.
Men's Córdoba Tournament
(hard surface, $713,495 endowment):
< strong>Doubles – final:
González, Molteni (2-Arg.) – Reboul, Doumbia (3-Fr.) 6:4, 6:4.
Men's tournament in Montpellier
(hard surface, subsidy 630,705 euros):< /p>
Singles – final:
Sinner (2-It.) – Cressy (USA) 7:6 (7:3), 6:3.< /p>
Fours game – final:
Haase, Middelkoop (4-Netherlands) – Olivetti, Cressy (Fr./USA) 7:6 (7:4 ), 4:6, 10:6.
Women's tournament in Linz
< em> (hard surface, subsidy 259,303 euros):
Singles – final:
Potapovová (8-Russia) – Martičová ( 6-Croatia) 6:3, 6:1.
Fours game – final:
Dzalamidzeová, Kužmová (Rus./SR) – N. TO ičenová, Friedsamová (Ukrainian/German) 4:6, 7:5, 12:10.
