Spanish world number 82 Daniel Merida won his first tour-level title on Saturday by beating Bosnian Damir Dzumhur 6-2, 5-7, 6-2 in the final of the ATP 250 clay-court tournament in Umag.<\/p>\n
At 21 years and 10 months, Merida<\/a> becomes the third-youngest winner of the Croatian tournament<\/a>, joining illustrious company in compatriot Carlos Alcaraz<\/a> (18 years, two months) and Italian world number one Jannik Sinner<\/a> (20 years, 10 months).<\/p>\n “Two of the best guys in the world, so it’s amazing to be in this group of players,” Merida said.<\/p>\n “Of course they are far away, but I will keep working to try and get as close as possible to them.<\/p>\n “It was a crazy match… But I’m super happy with my level this week and for my first title.”<\/p>\n Having been the runner-up at the ATP 250 tournament on clay in Bucharest in April, Merida’s first title will also earn him a new career-high ranking of 58.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Spanish world number 82 Daniel Merida won his first tour-level title on Saturday by beating Bosnian Damir Dzumhur…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":700070,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-700069","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\/700069","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=700069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700069\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/700070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=700069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=700069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=700069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}