Romanian tennis player Nicholas David Ionel on Sunday won the men’s singles event at the M15 Alaminos-Larnaca ITF tournament, prize pool 15,000 euros, after defeating compatriot Filip Cristian Jianu 6-3 7-6 (7/2), write Agerpres.
Top seed Ionel – 20, ranked 202– prevailed in two hours and 15 minutes over second-seeded Jianu –21, ranked 327.
Ionel won all three meets with Jianu, the first in 2020 in the quarters at Heraklin, 6-4 6-1, and the second in 2022 at the Sibiu Challenger, 3-6 6-4 2 -0 (Jianu dropped out) in the round of 16
For Ionel, this is the second ITF title this year and the 11th in his career.
Ionel beat Australian Moerani Bouzige 6-1 6-0 in the first round; in the round of 16 he defeated Italian Marco Miceli, 6-3 6-2; in the quarter-finals he defeated German Sebastian Prechtel, 6- 1 6-3, and in the semi-finals he won against Hungarian Peter Fajta, 6-1 6-1.
Jianu started with a 6-4 6-1 victory against Swede Lucas Renard; in the round of 16 he defeated Dutch Guy Den Ouden 7-6 (7/5) 6-1; in the quarter-finals he won against Dane Elmer Moeller 4-6 6-1 6-4, and in the semi-finals he beat Romanian Vlad Andrei Dancu, 6-4 6-4.
