{"id":752059,"date":"2026-06-21T18:31:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T18:31:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/752059\/"},"modified":"2026-06-21T18:31:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T18:31:12","slug":"francisco-cerundolo-beats-former-champion-tommy-paul-on-grass-to-win-queens-final-winnipeg-free-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/752059\/","title":{"rendered":"Francisco Cerundolo beats former champion Tommy Paul on grass to win Queen\u2019s final \u2013 Winnipeg Free Press"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON (AP) \u2014 Seventh-seeded Francisco Cerundolo of Argentina beat former champion Tommy Paul to win the Queen\u2019s final 6-7 (4), 6-4, 6-3 on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Cerundolo won on his fifth match point at Andy Murray Arena to clinch his second title this year, the second of his career on grass \u2014 after Eastbourne in 2023 \u2014 and his fifth overall.<\/p>\n<p>Paul, the 2024 champion, was seeded No. 8 and chasing a sixth career title. He lost for the sixth time in eight meetings with Cerundolo.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/6a380c3c97b58a6d58ddfb90jpeg.jpg\" data-pswp- data-pswp-width=\"2716\" data-pswp-height=\"1811\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/6a380c3c97b58a6d58ddfb90jpeg.jpg\" alt=\"Francisco Cerundolo of Argentina hits a return to Tommy Paul of the United States during the men's final at the Queen's Club tennis championships in London, Sunday, June 21, 2026. (AP Photo\/Maja Smiejkowska)\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tFrancisco Cerundolo of Argentina hits a return to Tommy Paul of the United States during the men&#8217;s final at the Queen&#8217;s Club tennis championships in London, Sunday, June 21, 2026. (AP Photo\/Maja Smiejkowska)<\/p>\n<p>The ATP 500 event in London serves as a tune-up for the grass-court Grand Slam at Wimbledon, which starts June 29.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\tWinnipeg Free Press | Newsletter\n\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/1779296989_228_onsports-tile-1.jpg\" alt=\"Sign up for Mike McIntyre | On Sports\"\/><\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP tennis: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/tennis<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONDON (AP) \u2014 Seventh-seeded Francisco Cerundolo of Argentina beat former champion Tommy Paul to win the Queen\u2019s final&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":752060,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-752059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=752059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/752059\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/752060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=752059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=752059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=752059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}