GENEVA — Stan Wawrinka warmed up for his French Open title defense by winning the Geneva Open Saturday, beating Marin Cilic 6-4, 7-6 (11) in the final.
The top-seeded Swiss took his second match-point chance in a long tiebreaker when the third-seeded Croatian sent a backhand long.
Wawrinka had trailed 3-0 in the tiebreaker, after losing his first two points on serve, and saved four set points for Cilic.
The 31-year-old Wawrinka won his 14th career singles title and his first in Switzerland after more than a decade of competing at Gstaad, Basel and now Geneva.
Wawrinka, ranked No. 4, got his first title on clay since winning at Roland Garros last year. He opens next week against Lukas Rosol. Wawrinka beat the Czech in Geneva Friday.
Thiem wins Nice Open
Top-seeded Dominic Thiem of Austria beat German teen Alexander Zverev 6-4, 3-6, 6-0 to win the clay-court Nice Open final and clinch his third ATP title of the year Saturday.
Thiem, ranked 15th, dropped serve four times but broke Zverev's serve six times on his way to a sixth career title.
The 19-year-old Zverev, who was seeded eighth and playing in his first career final, double-faulted nine times — including four times in the deciding set, during which Thiem did not face a break point and won every point on his first serve.
Thiem's other titles this year were on outdoor hard court at Acapulco and outdoor clay at Buenos Aires. Five of his titles are on clay.
Bertens wins Nuremberg
Dutch qualifier Kiki Bertens defeated Mariana Duque-Marino of Colombia 6-2, 6-2 to win the Nuremberg clay-court tournament Saturday.
The 89th-ranked Bertens, who beat top-seeded Roberta Vinci in the second round and Germany's Julia Goerges in the semifinals, converted 11 of her 17 break points.
It's Bertens' second career victory after her victory in Fes, Morocco in 2012.
Duque-Marino, who had to play two matches on Friday, was chasing her second title.
Garcia sees off Lucic-Baroni
Frenchwoman Caroline Garcia claimed her second WTA title by beating veteran Mirjana Lucic-Baroni in straight sets in the Strasbourg final Saturday.
World No. 55 Garcia had not even reached a quarterfinal since February, but she saw off former Wimbledon semifinalist Lucic-Baroni with relative ease after an opening set that saw five breaks of serve.
The home player lost just three points on her serve as she raced through the second set, beating her Croatian opponent 6-4, 6-1 in an hour and a quarter.
Lucic-Baroni last reached the final in Strasbourg 19 years ago when she was defeated by Steffi Graf.
