Stefanos Tsitsipas held off a spirited Alex de Minaur comeback to clinch his first title of the season on the ATP 250 in Los Cabos on Saturday night time. The Greek earned his tenth profession crown and prolonged his excellent Lexus ATP Head2Head in opposition to De Minaur to 10-0 with a 6-3, 6-4 win on the Mexican Pacific coast.

The highest-seeded Tsitsipas transformed 4 of 9 break factors he earned to wrap an 86-minute triumph in opposition to De Minaur. He held three factors for a double-break lead within the second set at 6-3, 3-2, 0/40 earlier than the fifth-seeded Australian roared again into the match, however Tsitsipas notched one other essential break for 5-4 en path to securing his thirty ninth win of the 2023 season.

“I really feel like each of us needed to exit on the court docket immediately and present an important ultimate,” mentioned Tsitsipas in his on-court interview. “I really feel prefer it was an important match. Alex confirmed nice tennis, I attempted to maintain up with the extent as a lot as I may. I’m actually completely satisfied we have been in a position to ship an important ultimate immediately. I believe that’s the factor that stands out essentially the most. It was an important match and the group, as all the time, was totally current and engaged.”

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Competing on the Mifel Tennis Open by Telcel Oppo for the primary time this week, Tsitsipas survived a three-set thriller in opposition to Nicolas Jarry within the quarter-finals however dropped not more than seven video games in his different three victories over John Isner, Borna Coric and De Minaur on the best way to his first out of doors hard-court title. It was the 24-year-old’s first hard-court crown since he gained Marseille indoors nearly three years in the past.

Tsitsipas will leapfrog Casper Ruud to No. 4 within the Pepperstone ATP Rankings on Monday because of his Los Cabos run. The Greek has additionally risen one spot within the Pepperstone ATP Reside Race To Turin this week, shifting above Andrey Rublev into fourth as he chases a spot on the season-ending Nitto ATP Finals for the fifth consecutive 12 months.

De Minaur, one of many grittiest gamers on Tour, has scavenged only one set in his previous eight conferences with Tsitsipas.