The meeting lasted 2 hours 11 minutes and ended with a score of 6: 4, 6: 7 (4: 7), 6: 4 in favor of the third racket of the world.
Thus, the Russian tennis player won the first singles tournament of this season, and he also became the winner of the ATP 250 series tournament for the fifth time in his career.
Earlier it was reported that Aslan Karatsev defeated Yegor Gerasimov at the start of the ATP tournament in Dubai.