{"id":516136,"date":"2026-04-06T16:44:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T16:44:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/516136\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T16:44:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T16:44:17","slug":"paul-saves-three-match-points-in-houston-to-win-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/516136\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul saves three match points in Houston to win final"},"content":{"rendered":"

American fourth seed Tommy Paul saved three match points before scoring a battling three-set victory over unseeded Argentine Roman Burruchaga to win the ATP Houston US Men’s Clay Court Championship on Sunday.<\/p>\n

Paul<\/a>, 28, held his nerve in a nail-biting third set to dig out a 6-1, 3-6, 7-5 triumph<\/a> in two hours and 40 minutes to claim the fifth ATP title of his career.<\/p>\n

The American had looked to be heading for defeat after the 77th-ranked Burruchaga<\/a> engineered a trio of match points while leading 5-3 on Paul’s serve in the decisive third set.<\/p>\n

But Paul showed tremendous resilience to put out that fire and hold, and then broke Burruchaga in the next game to square the match at 5-5.<\/p>\n

Buoyed by that narrow escape, Paul then held to love to go 6-5 up, and suddenly the pressure was all on the 24-year-old from Buenos Aires, playing in his first ATP final.<\/p>\n

Burruchaga, the son of 1986 World Cup-winning footballer Jorge Burruchaga, appeared equal to the challenge after going 40-0 up.<\/p>\n

Yet once again, Paul dug deep and clawed his way back to deuce.<\/p>\n

The American moved to match point when Burruchaga drilled a backhand wide down the line, and then clinched victory when the South American yanked a wild forehand long on the next point.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"American fourth seed Tommy Paul saved three match points before scoring a battling three-set victory over unseeded Argentine…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":516137,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-516136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516136","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=516136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516136\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/516137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=516136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=516136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=516136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}