Top-seeded David Ferrer beat unseeded Philipp Petzschner on Saturday to win the Unicef Open grasscourt tennis tournament in the Netherlands for the second time, while Nadia Petrova beat Urszula Radwanska to take the women’s title.
Ferrer, who also won the title in 2008, broke the German twice in the opening set and once in the second, closing the match with a love game to comfortably win 6-3 6-4 in the Wimbledon warm-up.
“Now I want to enjoy this moment and, tomorrow, I will focus on Wimbledon,” Ferrer said. “I played my best match of the week.”
Ferrer is the No.7 seed at Wimbledon and the Spaniard faces a first-round match against Germany’s Dustin Brown.
Eighth-seeded Petrova dropped her first service game to Radwanska but the Russian recovered to take the first set 6-4, breaking the unseeded Pole to love in the set’s final game.
The powerful Petrova, who is 20th seed at Wimbledon, quickly broke in the second set and held on to win 6-3.
AP