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<\/p>\nCerundolo and Paul have history in grass court finals, having previously met in the 2023 Eastbourne final, where the Argentine also came out on top.<\/p>\n
He\u2019s one of only three men to win both titles, joining Andy Roddick and Feliciano Lopez.<\/p>\n
It was a high-quality match from start to finish, with both players testing every inch of each other\u2019s game and mental resolve.<\/p>\n
\u201cWith Tommy, we know each other a lot. We\u2019ve play many, many times. Onn grass four times, it’s incredible to play four times a guy in the grass season.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe know each other a lot. It’s like a chess game, because I know how he plays and he knows how I play.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI think it was a battle. Three hours out there, competing, really close games, all of them. Advantage for him, for me. It was super tight.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe’s a really complete player, and I have a lot of respect towards him.\u201d<\/p>\n
Sunday was Father\u2019s Day in both the UK and Argentina, and Cerundolo delivered his Dad the greatest gift of all.<\/p>\n
Cerundolo\u2019s parents arrived in the crowd just moments before the end of the match, having flown in from Argentina that day.<\/p>\n
It was particularly special for the new Queen\u2019s champion as it\u2019s the first time his Dad has flown out to see him play outside of his home country.<\/p>\n
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\u201cMy mum, she usually travels. When me and my brother are in the same tournament, she tries to come so she can see us at the same moment, because if not, we’re away from home a lot.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy Dad used to travel before, but when I was born, he stopped because he hated planes and he couldn’t handle it.<\/p>\n
\u201cLast year he started taking therapy and trying to approach his fear.\u00a0 Yeah, during last week, he was saying, I will go to the grass season. He always loved London and always loved grass, and he never came.<\/p>\n
\u201cI knew if the match is short, they wouldn’t arrive to the tournament, but if the match was longer, maybe they could arrive. I just saw them when I went to celebrate with my team in the corner.\u201d<\/p>\n
He\u2019s set to join his brother, Juan Manuel Cerundolo in Eastbourne this week. Both the Cerundolo brothers are now inside the top-50 following Juan Manuel\u2019s run at Roland Garros, where he beat world No.1 Jannik Sinner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cerundolo and Paul have history in grass court finals, having previously met in the 2023 Eastbourne final, where…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":273367,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-273366","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\/273366","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=273366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273366\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/273367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}