{"id":707446,"date":"2026-07-23T17:36:43","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T17:36:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/707446\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T17:36:43","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T17:36:43","slug":"tsitsipas-claims-first-atp-title-in-16-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/707446\/","title":{"rendered":"Tsitsipas claims first ATP title in 16 months"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Stefanos Tsitsipas has won his first ATP title in 16 months after defeating Raphael Collignon in the Swiss Open final.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The former world number three and two-time Grand Slam finalist overcame the Belgian 6-4 6-7 (3-7) 6-3 to claim the 13th ATP title of his career.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Tsitsipas&#8217; last title was the Dubai Open in March 2025, where he beat Felix Auger-Aliassime in straight sets.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;I would like to start by mentioning how amazing the final was today,&#8221; said the Greek, who will climb from 85 to 55 in the updated world rankings on Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;It&#8217;s been a long time so it does mean a lot to me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Tsitsipas impressed on serve in Sunday&#8217;s final in Gstaad, hitting four aces and no double faults.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">He won 21 of 29 of his second-serve points and saved two break points from four faced.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">It was the 27-year-old&#8217;s sixth clay court title of his career, most notably winning the Monte Carlo Masters in 2021, 2022 and 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The 24-year-old Collignon, ranked 42 in the world, was competing in his first ever ATP final.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Stefanos Tsitsipas has won his first ATP title in 16 months after defeating Raphael Collignon in the Swiss&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":707447,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[12701,35071,63085,101,118,183791,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-707446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-atp-tour","tag-felix-auger-aliassime","tag-raphael-collignon","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-tsitsipas","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707446","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=707446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/707446\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/707447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=707446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=707446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=707446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}