Titles for Ruud, Struff, Fucsovics, Rybakina and Stevens. Plus all the ATP beef that's fit to post BELOW.
Casper Ruud completed a revenge job in convincing fashion Sunday in Barcelona, where the Norwegian defeated Stefanos Tsitsipas 7-5, 6-3 to lift the trophy at the clay-court ATP 500. Seven days after Tsitsipas prevailed in the pair’s championship-match meeting in Monte-Carlo, Ruud delivered a classy all-around display to clinch his first ATP Tour title of the season and most prestigious to date.
In the Barcelona doubles final, defending champions Máximo González and Andrés Molteni[ defeated Hugo Nys and Jan Zieliński in the final, 4–6, 6–4, [11–9]
I'm available for consoling, boys
The fourth time was the charm for 33-year-old Jan-Lennard Struff on Sunday at the BMW Open. The German defeated American Taylor Fritz 7-5, 6-3 to win his first career ATP singles title, becoming the first home champion at the tournament in five years in the process.
Struff also teamed up with countryman Andreas Mies to reach the doubles final, where they narrowly lost to Yuki Bhambri / France Albano Olivetti 7–6(8–6), 7–6(7–5)
German engineering
Hungarian hunk Marton Fucsovics earned his second ATP Tour title on Sunday when he defeated rising Argentine Mariano Navone 6-4, 7-5 in the final of the Tiriac Open.
In the doubles final, Fabien Reboul and Sadio Doumbia defeated Harri Heliövaara and Henry Patten, 6-3, 7-5
Elena Rybakina needed just over an hour on Sunday to roll to her third title of 2024 at the Porsche Tennis Grand Prix in Stuttgart. After snapping world No.1 Iga Swiatek's 10-match winning streak in a nearly three-hour semifinal on Saturday, the fourth-ranked "Kazakh" was dominant in a 6-2, 6-2 win over unseeded Ukrainian Marta Kostyuk, who had outlasted Coco Gauff en route to the final.
Sloane Stephens battled to her eighth career WTA Tour singles title on Sunday, defeating unseeded-but-always-tricky Magda Linette of Poland 6-1, 2-6, 6-2 to win the inaugural WTA 250 Open de Rouen in France.
Watch Casper take the Nestea Barcelona plunge HERE!
Elsewhere around the net ...
Tennis got lots of recognition at the Laureus World Sports Awards, with Novak Djokovic receiving a fifth Laureus for Sportsman of the Year.
Tracy Austin, who had a cameo in the epic tennis bomb "Players" (1979), interviews the stars of sure-to-be-a-bomb "Challengers" HERE.
Leggy David Vega Hernandez ...
has landed in Rome
Nice to see Fucksalot on the move
Why is Andy Garcia hanging out with this lineup?
Pretty boy Christian Harrison on the town
Where do I sign up?
Garbiñe Muguruza, who should have hung up her racket after that disgraceful loss to Sofia Kenin in the 2020 Australian Open final, has officially retired.
My favorite Karen
Are Tomas Machac and Katerina Siniakova a celebrity couple back home in Czechia?!!
Fabien Rebeoul vs. rubber band
Borna Gojo seems to be enjoying his time away from the court
Ditto for Vasek Pospisil
Hubert Hurkacz has made a friend in David Lee, aka Mr. Caroline Wozniacki
Steve Weissman gets a birthday hit with Tennis Channel colleague Tracy Austin
This still doesn't do shirtless practice with Luca Darderi justice. Watch HERE.
That pose could get Alexis Galarneau charged with sexual harassment
Kevin Krawietz gets fitted
My French boyfriend Quentin Halys
Adams Jones ...
making his rounds
Gym time with Grigor Dimitrov
I see I'm not the only one who looks back fondly on Benoit Paire's youth
Stan Wawrinka grooms 19-year-old Alex Coman
Jan-Michael Gambill in "Titty Titty Bang Bang"
Is Jonas Pitorre the secret of Albano Olivetti's recent success?
Warning: This is how fetishes are born
Nicolas Moreno need a hand?
New crush: Alejandro Moro Canas of Spain (natch)
Follow HERE.
And last but not least ...
It sure sounds like Rafael Nadal is going to follow in Roger Federer's footsteps and announce his retirement at the (silly) Laver Cup
(With wire services)
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