Stefanos Tsitsipas of Greece defended his title with a 6-3,
6-4 victory against Felix Auger-Aliassime in the Open 13 Provence final in Marseille, France.
The No. 2 seed broke the seventh-seeded Canadian three times and saved four of five break points in the 86-minute match.
It was the second straight year that 21-year-old Tsitsipas captured the Marseille trophy without dropping a set.
He is the first man to win the event in back-to-back years since Sweden’s Thomas Enqvist in 1997 and 1998.
Tsitsipas goes back-to-back in Marseille
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