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Draper, 22, was competing in his third final,
losing earlier this year at Adelaide and the runner-up last year
at Sofia. When the new rankings come out Monday, he will rise to
a career high No. 30, vaulting 10 spots.
Berrettini, a two-time champion in Stuttgart, hit 14 aces and
Draper had 12. The match came down to the seventh game of the
third set, when the sixth-seeded Draper converted his only break
point of the day to take a 4-3 lead, from which the Italian
couldn't recover.
Tied 5-5 in the second-set tiebreaker, Berrettini was two points
from closing out the grass-court match but couldn't convert.
Libema Open
Top seed Alex de Minaur of Australia captured his ninth career
title, defeating seventh-seeded Sebastian Korda 6-2, 6-4 in
‘s-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands.
It's the second tour title of 2024 for de Minaur, who also won
on the hard courts in Acapulco earlier this year. He will rise
to a career-high No. 7 on Monday.
This win came on grass, however, and de Minaur was dominant. He
scored on 77 percent of his first serves, compared to 55 percent
for Korda, and hit 17 winners and had 14 unforced errors. Korda
had 26 unforced errors and just 14 winners.
In winning the title, de Minaur didn't drop a set throughout the
week and now is 33-11 for the year.
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