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By Chris Oddo | Sunday September 25, 2016

 
Lucas Pouille

22-year-old Lucas Pouille captured his first ATP title in Metz, easing past Dominic Thiem in straight sets.

Photo Source: TennisTV

Lucas Pouille won the Moselle Open on Sunday, becoming the seventh Frenchman to raise the title in the last eight years with a 7-6(5), 6-2 victory over Austrias Dominic Thiem.

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Pouille claims his maiden ATP title with the victory, and improves to 5-4 against Top 10 players.

The 22-year-old Grand-Synthe, France native has had a quite a run in the last three months. He reached his first major quarterfinal at Wimbledon and backed up the result with a quarterfinal appearance at the U.S. Open.

Pouille improves to 30-18 with the win. He had only won 15 ATP matches prior to the start of the season.

Neither player could convert a break in the opening set, but it was Thiem who took the initiative early in the tiebreaker, rushing out to a 4-0 lead. But Pouille worked his way back to 4-2 at the changeover, then rallied from 5-2 down, claiming the final five points to take the set.

Seizing on the momentum, Pouille broke in the first game of the second set, then again in the seventh game when a volley by Thiem clipped the net and bounced just wide of the sideline.

The Frenchman finished the contest with a love hold, banging his third ace of the match down the T to finish off his victory in 78 minutes.

Pouille finished with 27 winners against 17 unforced errors, while Thiem produced 26 winners against 28 unforced.

Pouille becomes the ATP’s seventh first-time winner of 2016.


Thiem, who has bidding to become the first ATP player to win on clay, grass, hard and indoors, drops to 55-18 on the season and 7-3 in finals.

 

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