Casper Ruud "The Ice Man" beat Tomas Machac "The Air Machete" three quarters to one on Saturday to win Bastide Médical UTS Nîmes.
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00:00CROWD CHANTING
00:30CROWD CHEERING
00:34CROWD CHEERING
00:40Well it didn't impact him in any way on that point!
00:42Sucked up nicely to Ruud
00:47Took his time with it
00:50CROWD CHANTING
00:53CROWD CHANTING
00:56CROWD CHANTING
00:59Oh, he dealt with that well, considering the sun is awfully bright at the moment.
01:17Bravo!
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01:24Yes, that's good.
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01:40Oh, well played.
01:42He is so good on the overhead.
01:44We've seen that over the last couple of days, in fact.
02:00Oof
02:18Well, who's going for it?
02:25Just off!
02:26And all of a sudden...
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02:44It's Mahat!
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02:48Checkmate!
02:49Mahat!
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03:12Bravo!
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03:30Nice shot!
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03:41Yes, as well.
03:48Yeah, Mahat's in place. There's another 4-1.
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03:55Mahat!
04:18That is too good!
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04:22He has seen the ball so big.
04:29It's unreal, ball striking.
04:44Amichetty, well done this time.
04:53Bravo!
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05:00Bravo!
05:01That's all.
05:05Play with the forehand now.
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05:30What an angle.
05:35Sublime.
05:37Play with the forehand, come on.
05:42Sends Mahat wide and finishes him off with the forehand.
05:47It's Kasper on play.
05:49And that's how...
05:52Very similar speeds.
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06:31Too good from Mahat.
06:35Got up to that drive shot so well.
06:38Great hands over there too.
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06:50Serban Volley for 3.
06:53A winning formula on this occasion.
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07:14on this occasion even nine jaws to within to the Norwegian good hands never
07:23seems in a rush despite the deficit in this quarter rude
07:44Oh
08:14what
08:44The last two quarters the three pointers have saved me, well the first one it was opposite
08:58so I got two back I guess, so lucky for me but yeah what can you say it's so close, two
09:04quarters, the sliding point and some long rallies, some shorter rallies but yeah one
09:11more quarter or and potentially a sudden death so let's see how it goes.
09:33In New York we do and then we went back to Frankfurt and that was Ben Shelton, correct
09:38Grand final champion
09:43and we of course began the clay season here in Nîmes
09:46oh well up, well up indeed Thomas Mahatch
10:07I don't think Ruud could quite believe that
10:13very close quarter
10:16oh he made it, one more time Nîmes is asked if it can to get to its feet
10:29that is the end almost of regulation
10:34Kasper Ruud takes a three-pointer
10:46Kasper Ruud wins his first ever UTS title
10:57at an historic venue, Arena de Nîmes the first time we have had UTS in Nîmes
11:07he snapped a seven match winning streak of Thomas Mahatch