Del Potro lifts Sydney crown, Isner wins Heineken
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Top-seeded Juan Martin del Potro outclassed defending champion Bernard Tomic 6-3, 6-1 yesterday to win the Sydney International title in Australia.
Del Potro finished the match with his eighth ace and made only four unforced errors in securing his 18th career title and first in Sydney. He lost only six points on his serve, and Tomic appeared dispirited after being broken to fall behind 4-1 in the second set.
And it’s about to get more difficult for Tomic. His next match is against top-seeded Rafael Nadal in the first round of the Australian Open. Del Potro will also play his first-round match on Tuesday — against a qualifier.
In Auckland, New Zealand, John Isner had 23 aces in a match which had no service breaks to beat Lu Yen-hsun of Chinese Taipei 7-6 (4), 7-6 (7) in the final of the Heineken Open.
Isner, ranked No. 14, won his eighth career singles title and took the title in New Zealand for the second time after winning in 2010.
The third-seeded Isner, playing with a right ankle injury he picked up at the Hopman Cup the previous week, took a crucial minibreak to open the first set tiebreaker. In the second tiebreaker, he rallied from 3-0 down and closed with an ace on his third championship point.
“This match was very tight as every match I’ve played this week was very tight,” Isner said. “I needed every bit of it to come out on top.”
Isner heads into the Australian Open with a question mark hanging over his fitness because of his injured ankle. He has drawn a qualifier in the first round.
In the final of the Kooyong Classic exhibition event, Japan’s Kei Nishikori joined his coach Michael Chang as a tournament champion with a 6-4, 7-5 win over Tomas Berdych.
Nishikori, seeded No. 16 at the Australian Open, was watched in the stands by Chang, a former French Open champion and a three-time winner at the Melbourne venue in 1995-97.
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