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By Erik Gudris / Saturday, January 11, 2014
Juan Martin Del Potro proved too much for defending
champion Bernard Tomic as the Argentine claimed the Apia
International title in Sydney.
Photo Credit: AP
Top seed Juan Martin Del Potro kicked
off his 2014 season by winning his 18th career ATP title at the
Apia International in Sydney.
While defending champion Bernard Tomic of
Australia had the home crowd support during Saturday’s final,
it was not enough to stop the powerful game
of Del Potro, who played his best match of
the week.
Never facing a break point against him during the entire match,
Del Potro served eight aces and broke the Australian four
times.
After 53 minutes, it was over. Del Potro became the champion of
Sydney with a comprehensive 6-3, 6-1 victory. The winner’s
trophy was presented to Del Potro by Australian tennis great
Ken Rosewall.
“The finals never are easy, but I was surprised of my level
tonight,” Del Potro said to ATP.com. “I think I played great.
My forehand worked perfectly; I made a lot winners; many aces;
I played good slices.”
“Tonight showed why he’s that quality of a player,” Tomic said
about the loss. “So there was nothing I could have done. I
tried to keep up, but he kept playing the way he was playing. I
haven’t seen a guy play a second set like that. It was too
good.”
Both men enter next week’s Australian Open finding themselves
in the same section of the draw as world No. 1 Rafael
Nadal. While Del Potro could face Nadal in a projected
quarterfinal meeting, Tomic will face the Spaniard in the
opening round.
The doubles title was won by Daniel Nestor and
Nenad Zimonjic.
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