Stockholm
\n Elias Ymer defeats younger brother in Stockholm sibling showdown<\/p>\n
Cilic sets clash with Ruud<\/p>\n
October 14, 2025<\/p>\n
Peter Hansson\/BNP Paribas Nordic Open<\/p>\n
Elias Ymer defeats his brother Mikael Ymer 6-2, 7-6(4) in Stockholm.
\n By ATP Staff<\/p>\n
In a rare battle between brothers on the ATP Tour, Sweden\u2019s Elias Ymer<\/a> ousted his younger sibling Mikael Ymer<\/a> on Tuesday at their home tournament, the BNP Paribas Nordic Open<\/a> in Stockholm.<\/p>\n \nThe 29-year-old prevailed 6-2, 7-6(4) in what was the eighth tour-level meeting between brothers since 1990, and second this season. Argentine brothers Francisco Cerundolo<\/a> and Juan Manuel Cerundolo<\/a> faced off in Buenos Aires.<\/p>\n Matches between brothers on the ATP Tour since 2000<\/p>\n \nFollowing the opening-round match, the Ymer brothers shared a warm embrace at the net and Elias was overcome with emotion during his post-match interview. <\/p>\n \n\u201cToday, I would have been happy even if I lost,\u201d said the No. 243 player in the PIF ATP Rankings, who entered the week on an eight-match skid across all levels. \u201cI\u2019m usually never crying. I don\u2019t know what\u2019s happening.\u201d<\/p>\n \nIn other action, Tour-veteran Marin Cilic<\/a> won a clash between experience and youth. Cilic overcame #NextGenATP 19-year-old Nicolai Budkov Kjaer<\/a> 7-5, 6-3. The Croatian relied on his hefty serve at the indoor event, where he won 85 per cent of first-serve points and struck 12 aces, according to Infosys ATP Stats, en route to the one-hour, 33-minute win. <\/p>\n \nCilic, 37, is competing in Sweden for the first time in his pro career. He will next face second seed Casper Ruud<\/a>. The Norwegian leads Cilic 3-0 in their Lexus ATP Head2Head series.<\/p>\n \nTomas Martin Etcheverry<\/a> overcame Estonian qualifier Mark Lajal<\/a> 7-6(5), 6-7(5), 6-3 in a two-hour, 55-minute battle. Kamil Majchrzak<\/a> ousted Filip Misolic<\/a> 6-2, 6-2.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Stockholm Elias Ymer defeats younger brother in Stockholm sibling showdown Cilic sets clash with Ruud October 14, 2025…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":200919,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-200918","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-sports","9":"tag-tennis","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200918\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}