Canada's Gabriel Diallo wins his 1st ATP Tour title, taking Libema Open final in straight sets

The Canadian Press

· Posted: Jun 15, 2025 12:11 PM EDT | Last Updated: 7 hours ago

Gabriel Diallo has won his archetypal ATP Tour title.

The 23-year-old Montreal autochthonal defeated Belgium's Zizou Bergs 7-5, 7-6 (8) to triumph the Libema Open tennis tourney connected Sunday.

In what was a tight, back-and-forth 2nd set, Diallo was down 6-4 successful the tiebreaker earlier pulling triumph from the jaws of defeat. He got 3 consecutive points from past connected earlier yet taking the win.

Diallo had 9 aces, won 76 per cent of his first-serve points and had 23 winners. He besides broke connected his lone opportunity, portion redeeming his opponent's 2 interruption constituent chances.

The six-foot-eight Diallo was the archetypal Canadian men's singles finalist successful lawsuit history.

Diallo, presently ranked No. 55, already guaranteed his top-50 debut connected Monday by reaching the semifinals.

WATCH | Diallo takes 2nd-set tiebreaker to headdress Libema Open rubric win:

German 1st Queen's Club women's champ in 52 years

German qualifier Tatjana Maria capped an unthinkable week successful London arsenic she defeated American eighth effect Amanda Anisimova 6-3 6-4 to go the archetypal pistillate to triumph a rubric astatine Queen's Club successful implicit fractional a century.

The Wimbledon tune-up welcomed backmost pistillate competitors for the archetypal clip since 1973, erstwhile the Soviet Union's Olga Morozova won the title.

The triumph marked the extremity of an bonzer nine-day agelong for Maria, a parent of 2 ranked 86 successful the world, after she stunned 2nd effect and Australian Open champion Madison Keys successful the erstwhile round.

The 37-year-old becomes the oldest subordinate to assertion a WTA rubric since Serena Williams successful Auckland 2020. She dropped lone 1 acceptable en way to the rubric and her imagination tally besides included victories implicit Kazakh 4th effect Elena Rybakina and Czech sixth effect Karolina Muchova.

Maria dominated Anismova with large serves and earned an aboriginal interruption successful the archetypal set. She won 12 points successful a enactment arsenic she raced to a 4-1 pb and past held disconnected a little Anisimova fightback to adjacent retired the set.

Maria carried her momentum into the 2nd arsenic she again surged into a 4-1 lead. Her seventh ace of the lucifer helped her determination up 5-3, and she served retired the lucifer 2 games aboriginal to clinch her archetypal rubric successful implicit 2 years.

"A imagination travel true. [When] I came here, I was ne'er reasoning I could clasp the trophy astatine the end. When we arrived my small miss said, 'Wow that's a bully trophy, truthful big' and I said 'OK let's spell for it I volition effort to triumph it'," Maria said.

"Everything is imaginable if you judge successful it … I want to amusement this to my kids and hopefully they are proud. It's amazing."

Having started the week arsenic satellite No. 86, Maria is projected to determination up to satellite fig 43 erstwhile the caller rankings are released Monday.

Wimbledon runs June 30 to July 13.

Fritz lifts Stuttgart title

Taylor Fritz claimed his archetypal rubric of the twelvemonth with a 6-3 7-6(0) triumph implicit apical effect Alexander Zverev successful the Stuttgart Open final, extending his winning streak against the German to 5 matches.

Fritz, who knocked retired Zverev successful the 4th circular of Wimbledon past year, won the opening acceptable 6-3 successful 30 minutes without facing a interruption point. The American 2nd effect broke for a 5-3 pb aft Zverev double-faulted doubly and missed a volley astatine the net.

The 2nd acceptable stayed connected serve, with Zverev redeeming the lone interruption constituent astatine 5-5 earlier Fritz pulled distant successful a one-sided tiebreak to seal victory. It was Fritz's ninth vocation title, 4th connected grass, and improved his head-to-head grounds against Zverev to 8-5.

"I'm truly blessed particularly arsenic it was not excessively large of a clay season. And past from that spot to travel present and commencement the writer play disconnected perfectly, I americium ace blessed to triumph the rubric and bash it here," said Fritz, who won the ATP 250 rubric without dropping service each tournament.

"I don't person overmuch clip to celebrate. I person doubles time successful London, successful Queen's."

The 28-year-old Zverev, ranked 3rd successful the world, is yet to triumph a rubric connected grass, a aboveground helium has agelong struggled on. The three-times Grand Slam finalist has ne'er progressed beyond the 4th circular astatine Wimbledon.

World fig 7 Fritz, 27, is acceptable to emergence to 4th successful the rankings up of Wimbledon.