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Clement wins at home
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Published 05/10/2003 at 16:51 GMT+1
Fourth seed Arnaud Clement from France overcame hard-hitting Fernando Gonzalez, 6-3 1-6 6-3, in front of his homecrowd in Metz on Sunday to grasp his first title of the season. A tremendous three set battle where Clement's speed and agility halted Gonzale
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The Aix-en-Provence native grasped his first career title in Lyon and was playing in his 6th career final on Sunday, the second one this season.
Clement is the second French player to snatch and ATP title this season. Julien Boutter won in Casablanca back in April.
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The fourth seed made a rapid start to the match serving pretty well taking advantage of Gonzalez's unforced errors during the first set.
In the second set Gonzalez raised his level of game and Clement was simply not able to follow losing it after wining just one game.
Fortunately for Clement, Gonzalez was not able to maintain his pace in the third set. The set was a bit tight during the first few games but at 3-2 Gonzalez faltered gifting Clement with a break.
The Frenchman kept cool and held on to the break until the end of the match to win this way the first edition of the Open of Moselle in Metz, tournament that replaces Toulouse in the calendar.
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