Finally broke through the "second mother's life", Ruud became the first Norwegian player to win the Tennis Masters

Ruud, the No. 14 seed in the tournament, defeated British No. 5 seed Draper 2-1 in the men's singles final of the 2025 Madrid Tennis Masters on the 4th local time to become the first Norwegian player to win the Tennis Masters.

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Ruud, 26, who was once ranked No. 2 in the world and just one win away from world No. 1, defeated Draper 7-5, 3-6, 6-4 in two and a half hours in the final, reaching the final of the tournament for the third time and finally winning the title for the first time and his first major title. Ruud has previously won 12 titles, 11 in the 250 class and only one in the 500 class.

This is the first time Ruud and Draper have met each other. In the first set, Draper took the lead, broke early in the third game, and once led 5-3 into his own service game. However, Ruud was not willing to admit defeat, first made a crucial break in the 10th game, and then won two games in a row to win the first 7-5 reversal. In the second set, Draper still showed his winning potential and led all the way. Both broke serve in the 7th and 9th games to make it 6-3 to 1-1. In the deciding set, the two men were inextricably separated from each other in the opening game, and both men missed several break points. In the fifth game, Ruud finally made a crucial break and led all the way to win 6-4.

Ruud: Won in the final in 7 appearances. Ruud has reached three Grand Slam finals, two Masters finals, and one Grand Final final, but all of them have been defeated. This time in Madrid, he finally broke through the "second mother's life" and won the highest level of his career so far. Ruud said after the game that 7 was his lucky number. "It's my seventh final, so seven is a lucky number. I've never played three sets in any final, I've mostly lost in two sets. ”

Women's Doubles champion Kalinskaya of Russia (left) and Romanian partner Kostya show off their hard-earned loot

The defeated Draper congratulated Ruud: "You deserve the championship, and you are braver than me when it matters most." Draper, who won Indian Wells in March, will move up to No. 5 in the latest world rankings on Monday.

In addition, Kostya Karinskaya won the Women's Doubles title. In the Women's Doubles final in Madrid, Romanian/Russian pairs of Kostya and Karinskaya narrowly defeated the Russian/Belgian pairs of Kudermetova and Mertens 6-7(10), 6-2, 12-10 to win the title.