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Two generations of very cool French dudes – Fils and … Monfils – took the court in Antwerp and Stockholm, to seed ATP titles on Sunday.

In Stockholm, 37-year-old Gaël Monfils continued his comeback from injury and staves off the inevitable passage of time with his 12th title.

In Antwerp, 19-year-old Arthur Fils goes for his second career title, after winning Lyon on clay just before this year’s Roland Garros. He was denied by Alexander Bublik.

And in Antwerp, top seed Stefanos Tsitsipas was denied in singles. But he and brother Petros, who has turned into quite a useful doubles player in his own right, take the title – Petros’s first, in his first career ATP final and Stefanos’s second, after he won in Acapulco last year with Feliciano Lopez.

The younger Tsitsipas’s doubles ranking stands at a career-high No. 81.

(Tokyo is 13 hours ahead of EDT; Stockholm and Antwerp are six hours ahead).

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Japan Open Tennis Championships
Location: Tokyo, Japan
Category: ATP 500
Surface: Outdoor Hard
Dates: Oct. 16 – 22, 2023
Prize money: $2,022,700
Draws: S32 – 16

Sunday, Oct. 22, 2023
Final results

Singles final 

Ben Shelton (USA) def Aslan Karatsev (RUS) 75 61

Doubles final

Max Purcell / Rinky Hijikata (AUS) def Jamie Murray (GBR) / Michael Venus (NZL) 64 61

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European Open
Location: Antwerp, Belgium
Category: ATP 250
Surface: Outdoor Hard
Dates: Oct. 16 – 22, 2023
Prize money: €750,950
Draws: S28 – D16

Sunday, Oct. 22, 2023
Final results

Singles final

[3] Alexander Bublik (KAZ) def [4] Arthur Fils (FRA) 64 64

Doubles final

Petros Tsitsipas / Stefanos Tsitsipas (GRE) def Ariel Behar (URU) / Adam Pavlasek (CZE) 67 (5) 64 [10-8]

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BNP Paribas Nordic Open
Location: Stockholm, Sweden
Category: ATP 250
Surface: Indoor Hard
Dates: Oct. 16 – 22, 2023
Prize money: €750,950
Draws: S28 – D16

Sunday, Oct. 22, 2023
Final results

Singles final

[PR] Gael Monfils (FRA) def [Q] Pavel Kotov (RUS) 46 76 (6) 63

Doubles final

Andrey Golubev (KAZ) / Denys Molchanov (UKR) def  Yuki Bhambri (IND) / Julian Cash) 76 (8) 62 (GBR

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