Scintillating present: Jacquet pocketed the title at a canter.
| Picture Credit score: B. JOTHI RAMALINGAM
Kyrian Jacquet ensured that it was a reasonably memorable maiden go to to the SDAT tennis stadium for budding nine-year-old fan Tamara, because the Frenchman beat Swede Elias Ymer 7-6(1), 6-4 within the ultimate to clinch the Chennai Open ATP Challenger title right here on Sunday.
Buoyed by the help from his compatriots, he earned $22,730 and 100 rating factors.
Energised by the zeal from the French contingent within the stands, Jacquet put up an impressed efficiency. He banked on his strengths – slicing typically to interrupt his opponent’s rhythm and speeding the web for the winners.
The 23-year-old hit three successive backhand slices in a 17-stroke rally when he was 4-3 up within the first set. He later produced essentially the most spectacular stroke of the match from the web: a mid-air between-the-legs volley.
It helped Jacquet that his opponent was alarmingly error-prone. Jacquet received the primary set tie-break 7-1, courtesy of Ymer’s six unforced errors. The champion remarkably performed a forehand cross-court cross to Ymer’s drop from the web for his first level. Ymer received his sole level when Jacquet double-faulted.
From there, Ymer made at the very least 13 unforced errors, together with a double fault, till he was down 1-4 within the second set. He caught up and made it 4-4, earlier than making three unforced errors to assist his opponent maintain serve with out dropping a degree. He saved a match level within the subsequent sport however double-faulted instantly after for Jacquet to interrupt serve and win the championship.
“I want to dedicate this title to my grandfather who handed away in December,” stated Jacquet after the summit conflict.
The outcome (singles, ultimate): Kyrian Jacquet (Fra) bt Elias Ymer (Swe) 7-6(1), 6-4.
Printed – February 09, 2025 08:02 pm IST
