"Tournament Champion Insulator", Norwegian Goruud won the 2025 Madrid Tennis Masters

On the 4th local time, Norway's first brother Ruud defeated the British 5th seed Draper 7:5, 3:6, 6:4 in the men's singles final of the 2025 Madrid Tennis Masters, and won the first ATP 1,000-point tournament championship in his career, and the world ranking also climbed from 15th to 7th, returning to the top 10 again.

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

Finally broke through the "second mother's life", Ruud became the first Norwegian player to win the Tennis Masters. Ruud has been derided as a "major champion insulator" because he has lost two Masters finals, three Grand Slam finals and one ATP Finals final in the past, but he has no regrets in his seventh revolution, and his title is also full of gold, beating Russia's ninth seed Dmitry Medvedev, America's third seed Flitz and Great Britain's fifth seed Draper in succession.

Ruud was delighted to win the coveted tournament title, saying: "My career has been better than I thought it would have been in many ways, but I've always dreamed of winning tournaments like this, including the Masters and Grand Slams, and becoming world number one, and I'm very close. ”

Ruud and Draper came out on top from 3-5 down in the first set to win four games in a row, and in the deciding set, he saved 13 break points and won the 13th tour title in three sets.

Ruud said: "I owe a lot of my success to the people closest to me, my family, friends and my fiancée, we got engaged last year, he has been my strongest support over the years, yesterday he made a special trip to support me, maybe it was the last help that allowed me to successfully cross the finish line, I feel very fortunate and extremely lucky to have so many wonderful people to accompany me." ”