OREANDA-NEWS  Russian tennis player Andrey Rublev beat 24-year-old Norwegian Kasper Ruud in the final of the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) tournament in Bostad (Sweden) on July 23.

The meeting ended with a score 7:6 (7:3), 6:0 in favor of the 25-year-old Rublev. The game lasted 1 hour and 33 minutes.

This season, the Russian is reaching the final of the ATP tournament for the fifth time, he became the winner for the 14th time in his career.

Rublev is the seventh racket of the world. At the same time, his opponent Ruuda is the fourth racket of the world, he became the winner of ATP tournaments 10 times.

The tournament in Bostad is held on a dirt surface, the prize fund of the competition is € 562 thousand.

On July 17, the first racket of the world Spanish tennis player Carlos Alcatraz defeated Serbian Novak Djokovic in the final of Wimbledon-2023. The score of the meeting, which lasted 4 hours and 46 minutes, was 1:6, 7:6, 6:1, 3:6, 6:4 in favor of the 20-year-old Spaniard.