Kyle Edmund has claimed his second ATP Tour title with a straight-sets win over Andreas Seppi in the New York Open final.

Edmund won five straight games to take the first set and build a big lead in the second, seizing control with shots that seemed to get more powerful as the match went on to seal a 7-5 6-1 victory in one hour and 21 minutes on Sunday.

The 35-year-old Seppi, 10 years older than Edmund, hung in for a while as balls kept coming back harder than he hit them, but fell short in his bid for a first title since 2012.

Edmund wouldn’t even earn his first win on tour until the next year.

He eventually worked his way up to No.14 in the rankings in 2018, when he won his first title, in Antwerp, and also reached the semi-finals of the Australian Open.

The native of Britain battled a left knee injury that forced him to pull out of three tournaments during a sub-par 2019 but appeared to have his game back on track this week in Long Island, where the eighth seed was stretched to three sets just once.

Neither Edmund nor Seppi player had much trouble holding serve in the first set until the Briton suddenly pounced in the 12th game.

His hard, deep shots kept pressure on Seppi and set up a backhand down the line to earn the break and wrap up the set.

Edmund then broke Seppi’s next serve en route to a 3-0 lead in the second.

Seppi fought off four break points for a shaky hold in the next game but Edmund simply came right back and banged three straight aces in an easy hold for a 4-1 lead.

The Italian then left the court to receive treatment and seemed to be slowed a bit by a leg injury, making it even harder to run down Edmund’s shots.

Seppi saved a match point but Edmund made no mistake at the second time of asking to improved to 5-1 against his opponent – with two of those victories this year.