Tomas Berdych made it a hat-trick of Stockholm Open titles by defeating 23 year old American Jack Sock in Sweden.
The Czech ace prevailed in straight sets 7-6(1), 6-2.
Sock had rolled into Sunday’s final posting impressive victories over Richard Gasquet and Gilles Simon but Berdych was not going to be his third scalp and the top seeded Czech found his form late in first set to win the tie-break in comfortable fashion.
The second set was controlled by Berdych who broke Sock twice en route to clinching his third title in the Swedish capital.
Berdych did not drop a set during his Nordic campaign and will now look ahead to the remainder of the season in a rich vein of form having also won in Shenzhen last month.
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