What an amazing week for Conor in Israel. He is currently playing some of the best tennis of his career and this was obvious after his second round victory over world no.75 and former Austrailan Open finalist(2003) and Wimbledon semi finalist(2008), Rainer Schuettler, seeded 3 in this event.
Before the event Conor was ranked 222 in the world and to win the event he had to beat 4 players ranked above him.
The same applied for the final where he beat Brazilian Thiago Alves tournament seed no.4 and world ranked 116. The final was a hard fought 3 set match and despite losing the first Conor came back to win on a score of 5-7, 7-6, 6-3.
Conor now moves well inside the worlds top 200 and becomes the Irish number 1 again.
Well done Conor and best of luck for the rest of the season.
More from Conor here.
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