ATLANTA: Alex de Minaur was again near-perfect on serve in claiming his second ATP title with a 6-3, 7-6 (7-2) win over American Taylor Fritz at the Atlanta Open on Sunday.

De Minaur, 20, went the entire tournament without facing a break point, and the Australian fittingly clinched victory with a deft serve-and-volley backhand winner.

It is the second title for third seed De Minaur, who won the Sydney International in January before being set back by a groin injury.

He became just the third player to win an ATP title without facing a break point since the tour began keeping stats in 1991. German Tommy Haas did it in Memphis in 2007 and American John Isner managed the feat in Newport in 2017.

Published in Dawn, July 30th, 2019