Tennis: Guillermo Garcia-Lopez wins BRD Nastase Tiriac Trophy

The Spanish tennis player Guillermo Garcia-Lopez has won this year's edition of the 439,405 euro-worth BRD Nastase Tiriac Trophy tournament to the Cezch Jiri Vesely 7-6 (7/5), 7-6 (13/11) in the singles final on Sunday at the Bucharest Arenele BNR.

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Aged 31, Garcia-Lopez wins his fifth ATP title and his 2nd this year, after the one in February, in Zagreb to Italian Andreas Seppi (7-6, 6-3). The Spaniard had succeeded to eliminate in the semifinals of the Bucharest competition the No. 2, French Gael Monfils.

Vesely (21 years old), No. 7, has but one ATP title, he has won this January, in Auckland, New Zealand.

The BRD Nastase Tiriac Trophy 2015 finals lasted 2 hours 14 minutes, both sets being decided at tie-break. The winner took 80,000 euro and 250 ATP points, whilst the defeated will go home with 42,100 euro and 150 ATP points.

Guillermo Garcia-Lopez, No. 45, has fought in the Bucharest tournament in 2013, too when he was defeated in two sets (6-3, 6-2) by the Czech Lukas Rosol, whom he managed to eliminate this year in the quarterfinals.AGERPRES