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German Tennis Championships 2016
Hamburg, Germany

RESULTS – SUNDAY, 17 JULY 2016

Singles – Final
[7] M. Klizan (SVK) d [3] P. Cuevas (URU) 61 64

Doubles – Final
[2] H. Kontinen (FIN) / J. Peers (AUS) d [3] D. Nestor (CAN) / A. Qureshi (PAK) 75 63

KLIZAN TOPS CUEVAS; KONTINEN/PEERS WIN DOUBLES
-Martin Klizan clinched his second ATP World Tour title of 2016 over third seed Pablo Cuevas in the final of the German Tennis Championships 2016 in Hamburg.
-The win also capped a successful return from injury for the Slovakian, who sat out for 10 weeks this spring due to a right foot injury.
-The Slovakian remains undefeated in five ATP World Tour finals.
-Cuevas was seeking his third ATP World Tour title of the season, having won back-to-back titles in February at the Rio Open presented by Claro and the Brasil Open. He also reached a grass-court final last month at the Aegon Open Nottingham (l. Johnson).
-Henri Kontinen and John Peers captured their third ATP World Tour doubles title of the year.
-Peers retains the trophy, having won the 2015 tournament with Jamie Murray.

WHAT THE PLAYERS SAID

Klizan:
“I think I have quite a lot of weapons and my return is my secret weapon. I was returning great today and put a lot of pressure on Pablo’s serves. He had a couple of games on his serve where I had no chance, but when he hit a second serve, I was trying to put the ball inside the court and put pressure. That’s why I broke his serve many times.

“It’s a great feeling, an amazing feeling. I must say that I didn’t expect I could win this before the tournament started. I’m so happy that my face is going to be on that wall with all these great players! I’m very happy to be next to Miroslav Mecir, who also won this tournament as well.”

Kontinen:
“It felt like a long week, much longer than usual. I felt pretty tired especially mentally coming in here. I just had to regroup and tried to make the most of it. I didn’t think at the start of the week we’d be standing here on Sunday as the winners. But I’m very happy.”

Peers:
“It’s good fun coming here straight after Wimbledon. They put on a great show and it’s always good fun to get back on the clay after such an enjoyable grass-court season. They put up a really good fight and Henri and I had to hang in there. We started to get the momentum at the end of the first set, when we got the first break. We then just tried to keep rolling and lucky for us we got the title.”

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