Tomas Berdych of Czech Republic finally earned his first title of the 2011 season by winning the China Open tournament. The Czech player beat Croatia’s Marin Cilic 3-6, 6-4, 6-1 on Sunday’s final in Beijing.
Berdych will move up to no. 7 in the ranking for the year-end ATP World Tour Finals in London. He’s aiming to qualify for the prestigious tournament for the second straight year.
“To win this title means really a lot to me because it’s after 29 months. It was quite a long time, so I’m happy that I could break this up. I think I couldn’t have a better place to win a title than here in Beijing,” Berdych said.
“I did a great move to have a good chance to qualify for London. Still, these two weeks in Shanghai and Paris I really need to do well. I want to do well. It just gives me a lot of confidence for the rest of the season and for the rest of the tournaments. So I’m really looking forward to that. I hope I can keep my level of game what I did and hopefully to win even more matches,” he added.
