{"id":825876,"date":"2026-07-27T00:05:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T00:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/825876\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T00:05:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T00:05:09","slug":"top-seeded-alex-michelsen-wins-2026-cranbrook-tennis-classic-singles-title-the-oakland-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/825876\/","title":{"rendered":"Top-seeded Alex Michelsen wins 2026 Cranbrook Tennis Classic singles title \u2013 The Oakland Press"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alex Michelsen became the first No. 1 seed to win the singles championship of the Cranbrook Tennis Classic.<\/p>\n<p>The 21-year-old beat Jacob Fearnley, the 8-seed, 7-6 (4), 6-3 in Sunday afternoon\u2019s final.<\/p>\n<p>It marked a bit of payback from their first-round thriller just weeks ago when Fearnley got the best of Michelsen, who was leading that meeting by two sets until Fearnley dominated from there out to win in five.<\/p>\n<p>Michelsen finished with 10 aces to Fearnley\u2019s two on Sunday, and also had the edge in second serve return points won and double faults.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theoaklandpress.com\/2026\/07\/25\/whats-in-a-seed-depends-who-you-ask-at-the-cranbrook-tennis-classic\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">What\u2019s in a seed? Depends who you ask at the Cranbrook Tennis Classic<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>This was Michelsen&#8217;s fourth overall ATP Challenger Tour win and first since the Estoril Open in April 2025. Between the two, he beat Lorenzo Musetti and Learner Tien on a run to the 2025 Canadian Open quarterfinals and this year reached the fourth round of the Indian Wells Open and the Miami Open.<\/p>\n<p>Challenger Tour success isn&#8217;t foreign to Fearnley either. He won his first four singles finals and picked up his fifth win earlier this month at the Hall of Fame Open, defeating Adam Walton, who&#8217;d beaten Michelsen in the semifinals.<\/p>\n<p>Fearnley, a four-year All-American at TCU who helped the Horned frogs to back-to-back ITA Indoor National Titles and the program&#8217;s first NCAA D1 championship, rose to No. 114 in the ATP rankings with this week&#8217;s performance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alex Michelsen became the first No. 1 seed to win the singles championship of the Cranbrook Tennis Classic.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":825877,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,8440,305417,85,747],"class_list":["post-825876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-michigan","tag-oakland-county","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=825876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/825876\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/825877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=825876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=825876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=825876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}