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It was just the second title for 29-year-old
Paire, who last lifted an ATP Tour trophy four years ago when he
defeated Tommy Robredo at the 2015 Swedish Open.
Sunday's final also marked sweet revenge for Paire, who had
beaten Andujar in three prior ATP meetings but lost to the
33-year-old just two weeks ago in the final of the ATP
Challenger Tour event in Marbella, Spain. Paire cruised to
victory in one hour and six minutes vs. the defending champ,
winning 89 percent of first-serve points and not conceding a
break all afternoon.
U.S. Men's Clay Court Championship
Chile's Christian Garin secured Chile's first ATP Tour title in
10 years, defeating Norway's Casper Ruud 7-6 (4), 4-6, 6-3 in
Houston.
It was Garin's second win over 20-year-old Ruud, who was playing
in his first career final, after previously beating the
Norwegian last month in the semifinals of the Brazil Open. Tied
at 2-2 in the final set, Ruud failed to capitalize on three
break-point chances. Garin broke in the next game, then serving
for the title at 5-3, fired an ace to set up championship point.
Garin, 22, had a tough path to the final: He went three sets in
his opening match against Uruguay's Pablo Cuevas, saved five
match points to oust No. 2 seed Jeremy Chardy in the second, and
defeated last year's runner-up American Sam Querrey -- a
finalist the previous four years -- in the semifinals.
Monte Carlo Masters
No. 9 seed Borna Coric of Croatia beat Poland's Hubert Hurkacz
6-4, 5-7, 7-5 in a sloppy three-setter that featured more than
100 unforced errors on both sides in first-round action in Monte
Carlo, Monaco.
The contest took two hours and 52 minutes -- though more than
five hours passed between the first and last points because of
rain -- with Borna notching four breaks and saving 4 of 7 break
points he faced.
Other Round 1 winners were Switzerland's Stan Wawrinka, the 2014
Monte Carlo champion, who beat Frenchman Lucas Pouille 7-5, 6-3
in 1:15; Bulgaria's Grigor Dimitrov, who ousted Italy's Matteo
Berrettini 7-5, 6-4 in 1:53; and Argentina's Guido Pella, who
was pushed to three sets by Serbia's Laslo Djere before winning
6-7 (2), 6-2, 6-4.
In qualifying action, six players advanced to the Round of 64:
Russian Andrey Rublev, Slovenia's Aljaz Bedene, Australian
Alexei Popyrin and the Argentinian trio of Juan Ignacio Londero,
Federico Delbonis and Guido Andreozzi.
--Field Level Media
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