Spain’s Fernando Verdasco won the first ATP hard-court title of his career with a 6-4 7-6 victory over American Sam Querrey in the New Haven Open on Saturday, just hours after he had won his semifinal.
Verdasco needed only 32 minutes to dispatch Querrey in the first set, and while he held a 4-2 lead in the second, the tall American fought back to break the Spaniard in the eighth game and force a tie-break.
“The second set was a little bit strange because I was 4-2 up, playing good,” Verdasco said.
Meanwhile, Denmark’s Caroline Wozniacki became the first woman since Venus Williams in 2002 to retain the women’s title, defeating Russian Elena Vesnina 6-2 6-4. “It was different (to last year),” Wozniacki told reporters.
