{"id":272769,"date":"2026-06-20T18:56:57","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T18:56:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/272769\/"},"modified":"2026-06-20T18:56:57","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T18:56:57","slug":"cerundolo-through-to-queens-final-with-paul-after-narrow-victory-over-nakashima","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/272769\/","title":{"rendered":"Cerundolo through to Queen’s final with Paul after narrow victory over Nakashima"},"content":{"rendered":"

Seventh seed Francisco Cerundolo booked his place in the final at Queen’s Club with a hard-fought 6-7(5), 6-3, 6-4 win over the American Brandon Nakashima on Saturday.<\/p>\n

Cerundolo will face American eighth seed Tommy Paul<\/a> in Sunday’s decider after he beat Frenchman Ugo Humbert<\/a> 6-3, 6-3<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“I’m super happy because it’s my first final in an ATP 500,” Cerundolo<\/a> said on court at the end of the match.<\/p>\n

The pair went toe to toe on the grass of the Wimbledon warm-up in the first set before the 24-year-old Nakashima<\/a> got the edge in the tiebreak, taking it 7-5.<\/p>\n

The 27-year-old Argentine hit back in the second, breaking to go up 4-3 and picking up the next two games to square the match.<\/p>\n

The decider went with break until Cerundolo produced a perfect cross-court forehand that left Nakashima swishing at air.<\/p>\n

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The break put him 3-2 up but he couldn’t retain the advantage with the American, now coached by former world no.6 Wayne Ferreira who won at Queen’s in 1992, breaking straight back.<\/p>\n

Cerundolo, who won a grass title at Eastbourne in 2023, broke again to go 5-4 up and duly served out for the match<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“It was a really challenging match, really tough,” said Cerundolo.\u00a0“I think Brandon is playing incredible too. He was playing amazing during the whole weekend today also.<\/p>\n

“I’m super happy because I just stayed there competing.”<\/p>\n

Paul, a Queen’s champion in 2024, continued his impressive form this week against Humbert, having not dropped a set in west London.<\/p>\n

The 29-year-old will seek to claim his second trophy of the season, after lifting the clay-court title in Houston, when he meets Cerundolo in Sunday’s final.<\/p>\n

Cerundolo boasts a 5-2 lead over Paul in their previous career meetings, including a three-sets victory over the American in the round of 32 at Queen’s three years ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Seventh seed Francisco Cerundolo booked his place in the final at Queen’s Club with a hard-fought 6-7(5), 6-3,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":272770,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-272769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=272769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272769\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/272770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}