HOUSTON — Qualifier Jenson Brooksby earned his first ATP Tour title Sunday by beating Frances Tiafoe 6-4, 6-2 within the last of the U.S. Males’s Clay Courtroom Championship.
Brooksby, a 24-year-old from California, saved 5 match factors in the course of the match, together with one in his semifinal victory over top-seeded Tommy Paul. Brooksby eradicated the three highest-seeded males within the subject, together with No. 2 Tiafoe and No. 3 Alejandro Tabilo.
Ranked exterior the highest 500 getting into the occasion in Houston, Brooksby is anticipated to climb inside the highest 175 in Monday’s ATP rankings. He’s the primary American man to win an ATP singles trophy this season and the primary qualifier to win this match since Fernando Gonzalez of Chile in 2000.
Brooksby returned to the tour on the Australian Open in January after a two-year absence that included a pair of wrist operations, a shoulder harm, a training change and a suspension associated to missed doping assessments.
He spoke to The Related Press in December about being recognized as autistic as a toddler, the primary time he had mentioned the topic publicly.
