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Del Potro dispatches Zemlja to claim 12th title

   
  

Added At:  2012-10-21 7:47 PM

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Argentina's Juan Martin del Potro returns the ball to Grega Zemlja of Slovenia during their final match at the Erste Bank Open tennis tournament in Vienna, Austria, Sunday, Oct. 21, 2012.

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The 70th-ranked Zemlja‚ who upset Janko Tipsarevic in the semifinals‚ was the first player from Slovenia to reach a final.

VIENNA: Top-seeded Juan Martin del Potro won his 12th career title Sunday, beating qualifier Grega Zemlja of Slovenia 7-5, 6-3 at the Erste Bank Open.

It's only the second indoor title for the Argentine, who was playing his first event since returning from a right wrist injury that sidelined him for more than a month.

At 2-2 in the opening set, the eighth-ranked Del Potro lost serve for the first time in the tournament. But from 2-4 down, he won 11 of the next 15 games to close out the victory.

The 70th-ranked Zemlja, who upset Janko Tipsarevic in the semifinals, was the first player from Slovenia to reach a final. Finland's Jarkko Nieminen, who won in Sydney, remains the only qualifier to win an ATP tour event this season.


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