Alexander Weis celebrates his first ITF tournament victory

For the South Tyrolean, it is the greatest success in his professional career so far. Weis played a fantastic week of tournaments in Catalonia. The world number 530 easily defeated the Indian Manish Sureshkumar (ATP 728), local hero Diego Augusto Barreto Sanchez (ATP 1030), the Russian Yan Bondarevskiy (ATP 511) and another Spaniard, Carlos Sanchez Jover (ATP 519), in order out of. In the sixth ITF final of his career (fourth this season), Weis celebrated his first tournament victory today. Thanks to this success, the South Tyrolean will most likely make it into the top 500 in the world rankings. First sentence with strong exclamation marks In the final, Weis met local hero Pol Toledo Bagué. The world number 569. had won the only previous duel against the South Tyrolean three years ago in Santa Margherita di Pula with 6:3, 6:3. In addition, Toledo Bagué has not had to give up a single set in the tournament so far. Weis took the serve from Toledo Bagué in the opening game to make it 1-0. The Bolzano player served well and secured the next break in the seventh game. After just over half an hour of play, Weis made it 6-2. In the second half of the game it was Toledo Bagué who promptly made it 3-0. On the other side, Weis secured the rebreak in the fifth game to make it 3-2. With the score at 4:4, the South Tyrolean made the next break to take the lead 5:4. Weis could have made everything clear on his own service, but conceded another rebreak to equalize. Weis doesn't let anything burn As a result, both players confirmed their serve, so this set went into a tiebreak. There, Weis first had to fend off a set point, but on the other side he missed a match point himself to make it 8:6. Toledo Bagué took the tiebreak shortly afterwards with 9:7 points, a hard blow for Weis. But the South Tyrolean didn't give up and dominated the third set, where he moved ahead with two breaks to 5:1. This time the man from Bolzano left no stone unturned and won 2-18 after 6:1 hours. So winning the first title was a reality.

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Alexander Weis celebrates his first ITF tournament victory

Alexander Weis won an ITF tournament for the first time in his career on Sunday afternoon. The 24-year-old from Bolzano defeated Spanish local hero Pol Toledo Bagué (ATP 15.000) 569:6, 2:6(7), 7:6 in the final of the $1 tournament in Girona.

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