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Andrey Rublev overcame illness and losing the first set to beat Felix Auger-Aliassime 4-6 7-5 7-5 for his first Madrid Open title.<\/b><\/p>\n
The Russian world number eight was under the weather with a fever coming into Sunday’s final and looked out of sorts when he trailed 4-1 in the opening set.<\/p>\n
But Rublev fought his way back into the match, striking at the end of both sets to get past the world number 35 and win his second Masters 1,000 tournament.<\/p>\n
“I have no words,” Rublev said. “If you knew what I had been through in the past nine days you would not imagine that I would be able to win a title.<\/p>\n
“I’m incredibly happy. I have to give full credit to the doctors. They were doing some tricky things and I was at least able to play.<\/p>\n
“I would say this is the most proud title of my career. I was almost dead every day. I was not sleeping at night. The last three, four days I didn’t sleep.”<\/p>\n
The 26-year-old had lost four consecutive matches before arriving in the Spanish capital but his performance will have encouraged him before the French Open, which starts in a fortnight.<\/p>\n
Auger-Aliassime, 23, had benefitted from the retirement of his semi-final opponent Jiri Lehecka early in their match and the withdrawal of world number two Jannik Sinner with a hip injury before their quarter-final.<\/p>\n
The Canadian had to work hard to save break points in the third set where Rublev was the better player, but was eventually undone by a double fault on match point.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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