French tennis player, world number 117 Giovanni Mpetchi Perricard, won the ATP-250 tournament in Lyon (France). In the final match, he beat the 29th racket of the world, Argentinean Thomas Martin Etcheverry. Tennis players determined the winner in a tiebreaker of the decisive third set. The match ended with a score of 6:4, 1:6, 7:6 (9:7) in favor of the Frenchman. He saved one match point.
The meeting lasted 2 hours 31 minutes. Perricar served 11 times, made two double faults and converted three out of six break points earned. The Argentine tennis player has five aces, two double faults and 5 break points won out of 14 earned.
Perricar, 20, won his first ATP title in his first final. Etcheverry was playing his third ATP final, and he was defeated in all of them.