Mirza Bašić won the first ATP career title

Bh. tennis player Mirza Bašić in his first ATP finals won the trophy of the winner, after defeating Marius Copil in Sofia.

Basic in the Bulgarian capital has shown that he is in a fantastic form, which resulted in winning the first career title and announcing the great results of this tennis player.

In eight days in Sofia Mirza Bašić played as many as 17 sets, spent more than 11 hours on the field and played seven matches. He finished Stana Wawrinka in the semifinals before finals, before Floriana Mayer, Philippe Kohlschreiber and Maximilian Marterer. In qualifications he was better than Alexander Lazov and Tomislav Brkic. In the final match, which offered a lot of uncertainty and the fight of both tennis players, Sarajli was better than the Romanian tennis player Marius Copil after three sets (7: 6, 6: 7, 6: 4), which was also the first ATP finale.

"This was my first finale and I did it myself, I had some luck against Marius." This week was the best in my career, I went to the Top 100. Sofia will surely be my special place because I won the first career tournament I enjoyed this week and I hope that we will see the next season, "Bašić said after the final match. Before this tournament bh. the tennis player took the 129th position on the ATP list, but after this success he will be among the top 100 world tennis players. According to the latest rankings, Basic should take 76th place.

Mirza Bašić became the second player in BiH history after Damir Džumhur, who won the ATP title.

• 11 Feb, 2018
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