American tennis player Taylor Fritz clinches Japan Open Tennis Championships title

TOKYO: America's Taylor Fritz registered a 7-6(3), 7-6(2) victory against countryman Frances Tiafoe in the final to clinch the Japan Open Tennis Championships men's singles title, here on Sunday. Immediately following seven days in hotel quarantine in Seoul, Fritz completed a perfect five-day stretch in Tokyo to claim his third title of a career-defining year. With this, the third seed became the 10th different American singles champion at the ATP 500 event and the first since Pete Sampras in 1996.

The American-Brazilian duo of Mackenzie McDonald and Marcelo Melo completed a dream debut week by claiming the men's doubles title, defeating third seeds Rafael Matos and David Vega Hernandez 6-4, 3-6, 10-4. Agencies

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