Learner Tien defeated Belgium’s Alexander Blockx 4-3(4), 4-2, 4-1 to win the Subsequent Gen ATP Finals on Sunday in Jeddah.
The 20-year-old American joins a listing of champions on the occasion that features Carlos Alcaraz, Stefanos Tsitsipas, Jannik Sinner and Joao Fonseca.
Tien, of Irvine, California, takes residence $502,250 for his efforts. He misplaced to Fonseca in final 12 months’s last at Jeddah.
Tien, who received his maiden ATP title in Metz in November, has received 9 of his final 10 matches.
“I’m tremendous glad,” Tien stated of his stellar 2025 season that featured a visit to the spherical of 16 on the Australian and 5 Prime-10 wins . “I used to be capable of verify loads of containers that I needed to this 12 months. I had a reasonably lengthy listing of objectives I needed to hit, and I used to be capable of get most of them. I’m actually glad.”
Blockx was undefeated heading into the ultimate (4-0), however drops to 0-3 lifetime towards the Prime-30 along with his loss in what was a rematch of the 2023 Australian Open Boys’ last, received by Blockx.
Blockx made all 21 of his first serves within the opening set however was nonetheless unable to take the opener, falling in a tiebreak.
From there Tien, who saved each break pionts he confronted, took over and managed a break within the second and third to win in routine vogue.
