Francisco Cerundolo won the biggest title of his career after beating Tommy Paul in three sets in the final of Queen\u2019s Club.<\/p>\n
Heading into this encounter, Cerundolo held a 5-2 head-to-head lead against Paul, and it looked like that trend might continue when he broke in the first game of the match.<\/p>\n
The Argentine\u2019s bruising forehand eased him in front, only for the Buenos Aires-born player to throw in a stinker of a game when serving for the first set.<\/p>\n
And Paul managed to hold his nerve and take the first set in a tiebreak 7-6 (4). But Cerundolo \u2013 who had never won above a 250 tournament before today \u2013 showed immense quality and perseverance to take the next two sets 6-4 6-3.<\/p>\n
So what does this mean in terms of prize money and rankings? Here\u2019s is Tennis365\u2019s\u00a0<\/strong>breakdown to answer those questions.<\/p>\n Projected Wimbledon women\u2019s seeds: Sabalenka and Rybakina headline, Chwalinska\u2019s rare feat, Eala and Raducanu safe<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Wimbledon withdrawals: 13 stars out as former world No 4 joins growing list<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Want more from Tennis365? Add us as\u00a0<\/span>a preferred source on Google to your favourites list<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>for tennis coverage you can trust.<\/strong><\/p>\n Coming into this encounter, Paul was 10th in the ATP<\/a> Race, while Cerundolo was four places back in 14th. And in the live rankings, Cerundolo was 23rd, just one place and 15 points in front of Paul.<\/p>\n Off the back of his win, which earned him 500 points, Cerundolo \u2013 who is now 12th in the race \u2013 is closing in on his career-high ranking of 18 as he is now up to 21st.<\/p>\n Paul<\/a> receives 330 points of his own, with the 29-year-old staying 24th in the rankings. This was also the longest Queen\u2019s Club final at more than three hours long.<\/p>\n This is the second time Cerundolo<\/a> and Paul have faced off in a grass court final, with the former coming out on top in Eastbourne in 2023 in three sets.<\/p>\n Queen\u2019s announced that the total prize money pot for this year\u2019s championships was \u20ac2,583,330 (\u00a32.23m).<\/span><\/p>\n The 32-player tournament started with a first round win of \u20ac20,145 (\u00a317,453), followed by \u20ac37,780 (\u00a332,732) in the round of 16, and then \u20ac70,775 (\u00a361,319) for the quarter-finals.<\/p>\n A semi-final win earns you \u20ac138,530 (\u00a3120,022) before the sizeable jump up to making the final.<\/p>\n Cerundolo has secured a prize money total of \u20ac483,145 (\u00a3418,596) whereas Paul chalked up \u20ac259,940 (\u00a3225,212).<\/p>\n Much of that will be taxed but still, not a bad day\u2019s work.<\/p>\n WHAT ELSE? Andy Murray gives his honest opinion on Serena Williams\u2019 return to tennis<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n The post Queen\u2019s Club: What ranking points and prize money did Francisco Cerundolo and Tommy Paul make?<\/a> appeared first on Tennis365<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Francisco Cerundolo won the biggest title of his career after beating Tommy Paul in three sets in the final of Queen\u2019s Club. Heading into this encounter, Cerundolo held a 5-2 head-to-head lead against Paul, and it looked like that trend might continue when he broke in the first game of the match. The Argentine\u2019s bruising […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2368\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}More Tennis News<\/strong><\/h2>\n
Ranking points from Queen\u2019s for Cerundolo and Paul<\/strong><\/h3>\n
Queen\u2019s Club prize money breakdown<\/h3>\n