Ignacio Buse beat Tommy Paul 7-6(6), 4-6, 6-3 in the Hamburg Open final on \u2060Saturday to become the first Peruvian winner on the ATP Tour in nearly 20 years, denying the United States a sweep of \u200cthe men’s clay-court tune-up events ahead of the French Open.<\/p>\n
The 22-year-old qualifier captured his \u200cmaiden tour-level trophy<\/a> and became the first Peruvian to triumph \u200con the circuit since Luis Horna at the Chilean Open in Vina del \u200cMar in 2007, but the match was far from smooth \u200csailing.<\/p>\n In a see-sawing final, Buse<\/a> took treatment for a spell of dizziness early in the clash and trailed 4-0 in the second set which he lost, before \u200cracing ahead in the decider to prevent sixth \u2060seed Paul<\/a> from lifting his \u200csecond title this season.<\/p>\n “It’s emotional for my family,” Buse said.<\/p>\n “So many people involved \u200bthat I cannot describe. This is for them. I feel extremely happy. It’s the best feeling in my entire life \u200bfor sure. I feel incredibly happy.<\/p>\n “I’m also really proud of Peru. It’s the best country in the world, so I’m just so emotional \u2060now.”<\/p>\n Paul’s loss came shortly \u200bafter\u00a0Learner Tien<\/a> battled from a set down in Geneva to dismantle Argentine Mariano Navone<\/a> 3-6, 6-3, 7-5<\/a> and win his second ATP title after Metz in 2025.<\/p>\n The 20-year-old fourth seed became the youngest American man \u200cto win a European clay-court title since his coach Michael Chang lifted the French Open crown in 1989 aged 17.<\/p>\n Fellow American Emma Navarro<\/a> also warmed up for Roland Garros with a timely confidence boost, winning the Strasbourg crown by beating top-seeded 19-year-old Canadian Victoria Mboko<\/a> 6-0, 5-7, 6-2<\/a> for the third title of her career.<\/p>\n “It’s kind of been a little bit of a rocky year and a half or so, but I think we’ve put in a lot of really \u200cgood work,” said Navarro, who has battled injury and illness this \u200bseason.<\/p>\n Paul, Tien and Navarro are part of a 37-member contingent \u200cof American players – including qualifiers and wildcards – who are competing in the singles draws at the year’s second Grand Slam which gets under way in Paris on Sunday.<\/p>\n Buse begins his French Open campaign against Russian Andrey Rublev<\/a> while Paul meets Australian Rinky \u2060Hijikata<\/a> and Tien faces Chilean \u2060Cristian Garin<\/a>. Navarro plays Indonesia’s \u200cJanice Tjen<\/a> in the women’s draw.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ignacio Buse beat Tommy Paul 7-6(6), 4-6, 6-3 in the Hamburg Open final on \u2060Saturday to become the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":600484,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-600483","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\/600483","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=600483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600483\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/600484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=600483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=600483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=600483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}