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Geneva: Swiss top seed Stan Wawrinka successfully defended his Geneva Open tennis title with a 4-6, 6-3, 6-3 victory over Germany’s Mischa Zverev.<\/p>\nGeneva: Swiss top seed Stan Wawrinka successfully defended his Geneva Open tennis title with a 4-6, 6-3, 6-3 victory over Germany’s Mischa Zverev.<\/p>\n
The 32-year-old world No.3 was on Saturday broken twice in the opening set but cleaned up his service games after that, reports Efe.<\/p>\n
The Swiss star put Zverev under constant pressure with his return game, creating a whopping 18 break points in the match and converting five of them to take the match — and clinch this clay-court title — in two hours and 20 minutes.<\/p>\n
The title is the 16th of Wawrinka’s career and serves as a confidence-booster heading into tennis’ premier clay-court event, the French Open, which gets under way on Sunday.<\/p>\n
The Swiss, who defeated Croatia’s Marin Cilic to win last year’s Geneva Open title, won his second of three Grand Slam titles at the 2015 French Open.<\/p>\n
“The level was great today, I think it was a great final,” Wawrinka was quoted as saying on the ATP World Tour’s Web site.<\/p>\n
“Mischa was playing very well and maybe I was hesitating a bit in the beginning. I’m happy that I came back strongly in the second set and managed to turn the match around.”<\/p>\n
Despite the loss, the net-rushing Zverev said he was pleased with his performance on tennis’ slowest surface.<\/p>\n
“It was a great week for me here in Geneva,” the 29-year-old German said.<\/p>\n
“Playing on clay is usually not easy for me, but I really felt great here playing six matches this week and reaching my first semi-final and final on this surface. Congratulations to Stan for a good week and a great match today.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Geneva: Swiss top seed Stan Wawrinka successfully defended his Geneva Open tennis title with a 4-6, 6-3, 6-3 victory over Germany’s Mischa Zverev.<\/p>\n
The 32-year-old world No.3 was on Saturday broken twice in the opening set but cleaned up his service games after that, reports Efe.<\/p>\n
The Swiss star put Zverev under constant pressure with his return game, creating a whopping 18 break points in the match and converting five of them to take the match — and clinch this clay-court title — in two hours and 20 minutes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33713,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[22278,466,20858,11242,12894],"class_list":["post-34884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-world-tennis-news","tag-geneva-open","tag-indian-sports-news","tag-mischa-zverev","tag-stan-wawrinka","tag-tennis-news"],"yoast_head":"\n