Jannik Sinner won the seventh title in his career as well as the first title in the 2023 season at the Open Sud de France, Montpellier.
Playing in the final of the Open Sud de France, the Italian tennis player defeated the US tennis player Maxime Cressy 7-6, 6-3.
The Italian has never won a match on her two visits to the ATP 250 level tournament, but she was impressive throughout the week. After receiving the WO from Marton Fucsovics, he beat Lorenzo Sonego, Arthur Fils and Cressy to become the first Italian to win the Open Sud de France.
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“To be honest, the first key to victory is to maintain serve. In the tiebreak, I knew he might have missed something. I tried to defend my serve, which I did, so I’m feeling really good about the first set,” said Jannik Sinner.
“The second set was a little different. I had some positive chances but then she started to serve really well. I’m really happy I broke it and I served really well at the end of the match.”
In a fierce final, the Italian neutralized Cressy’s serve and hard hitting, turning the tide during rallies from the baseline area with neat shots. The second seed won 86 per cent of the points on her first serve and was convincing on the returns, finding her rhythm to seal victory after one hour and 35 minutes.
The 21-year-old earned the decisive mini-break early in the tiebreaker when Cressy committed a double fault. After taking the lead, she kept her cool in the second set, breaking in the eighth game after the American’s volley returned too wide, before she held serve to win the Open Sud de France final.
The tennis player who last month qualified for the fourth round of the Australian Open, has now won six of the seven titles she has collected in hard-court tournaments. He won another title in a clay-court tournament held at Umag.
Sinner became the first man to win the title this season without dropping a set and the first player from his country to win since Lorenzo Musetti won the tournament in Naples in October last season. Thanks to the victory in Montpellier, he will rise to 14th in the world ranking.
While Cressy is playing his fourth career final in Montpellier this season with the target of winning a second title. Despite being runner up, his ranking will rise to 40th in the world.
