Monday, July 14, 2008

Hanescu wins 1st career title at Swiss Open

GSTAAD, Switzerland (AP) -Victor Hanescu won his first career title Sunday with a 6-3, 6-4 win over Igor Andreev in the Swiss Open final.

A 26-year-old Romanian ranked 80th in the world, Hanescu followed his semifinal upset of top-seeded Stanislas Wawrinka with another strong performance.

Hanescu broke Andreev early in both sets, and the Russian might have been tired after overcoming Guillermo Garcia-Lopez of Spain in a third-set tiebreaker earlier Sunday. Their semifinal was suspended by rain on Saturday at one set apiece.


Hanescu will move into the top 60 in the rankings. Eighteen months ago, he fell as low as No. 759 after having repeated back problems.




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